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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The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.
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The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
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If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
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All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.
