Evan Esar Quotes
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
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An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
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I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
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Planning is like taking on blinders. I think it is a wise thing to be open to whatever shows up on your doorstep.
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To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
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When you educate a woman, you create a nation.
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My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.
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The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
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It doesn't matter if you take a great picture if no one knows what it's about.
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A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.
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Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
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Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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O braggart vile and damned furious wight!
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We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
