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#1

“The main obligation is to amuse yourself.”
― S.J. Perelman

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#2

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

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#3

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
― Ambrose Bierce

tags: attributed-no-source, books, criticism, humor, wit

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#4

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit

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#5

“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

tags: ask, humor, lies, questions, sarcasm, wit, witty

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#6

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: definitions, tact, wit

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#7

“When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: copying, copyright, copyright-infringement, creativity, credit, envy, helping-others, honesty, originality, plagiarism, pleasure, selfishness, skill, support, talent, wit

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#8

“Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.”
― Tom Waits

tags: influence

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#9

“When someone’s presence gives you energy, when it riles up something in you—the way Daisy did for me—you can turn that energy into lust or love or hate. I felt most comfortable hating her.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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