Evan Esar Quotes
The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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Hillary Clinton has promised to build on President [Barack] Obama's policies. That means build on Obamacare, build on Dodd-Frank, build on the regulations coming out of the EPA. If that's the case, that will not be good for the economy.
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I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hosting.
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It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.
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I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.
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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
