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  • #1
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #2
    Ambrose Bierce
    Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #3
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #4
    H.L. Mencken
    “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
    H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

  • #5
    H.L. Mencken
    “A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #6
    H.L. Mencken
    “On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.”
    H. L. Mencken

  • #7
    H.L. Mencken
    “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
    H.L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major

  • #8
    H.L. Mencken
    “Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #9
    H.L. Mencken
    “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #10
    H.L. Mencken
    “Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #11
    H.L. Mencken
    “Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”
    H. L. Mencken

  • #12
    James Baldwin
    “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
    James Baldwin

  • #13
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #14
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #15
    Fran Lebowitz
    “A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #16
    Fran Lebowitz
    “The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #17
    Fran Lebowitz
    “As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”
    fran lebowitz

  • #18
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #19
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #20
    Fran Lebowitz
    “I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #21
    Fran Lebowitz
    “I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #22
    Fran Lebowitz
    “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #23
    Fran Lebowitz
    “All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.”
    Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

  • #24
    Fran Lebowitz
    “I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #25
    Fran Lebowitz
    “polite conversation is rarely either”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #26
    Fran Lebowitz
    “All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #27
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #28
    Fran Lebowitz
    “I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.”
    Fran Lebowitz



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