Evan Esar Quotes
All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.
Quotes to Explore
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
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Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
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We work and that is godlike.
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They did everything they could to make her renounce her position.
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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
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When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.
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Laugh at love and love will make you cry.
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Business money reattaches worldwide Deep inside stops the diamond rocks In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world Rap moves on to the year three thousand
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.
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All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.
