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Kurt Vonnegut:

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

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Rex Stout:

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person.

Stout, Rex, The Rubber Band in a dual volume with The Red Box (New York: Bantam Dell, 2009) p. 44.

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Victor Hugo:

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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Petrarch:

How difficult it is to save the ship of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

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Dwight Eisenhower:

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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Harry Reasoner:

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.

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Hugo Grotius:

Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

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Vera Marshe, in the voice of Mrs. Franklin:

Nature’s wonderful. A seed grows up and becomes a flower. A girl grows up and becomes a woman. A boy grows up and what does he become? A boy.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

War doesn’t mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

Stout, Rex, Over My Dead Body (New York: Bantam, 1994) p. 119

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Wilkie Collins:

The actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason.

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Jean-Paul Sartre:

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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Edgar Allan Poe:

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

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Gerald Durrell:

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

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Ann Baker, in the voice of Corliss Archer, speaking about her boyfriend Dexter:

Lots of times in the school lunchroom we just look in each other’s eyes and forget to eat. And, golly, that’s really love when two people just look at each other and lose their appetites.

Meet Corliss Archer is a very early TV sitcom, based on an even earlier radio sitcom. It is an absolute hoot.

I’m watching it on Tubi.

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Bernard Malamud:

If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

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Samuel Richardson:

Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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Art Buchwald:

You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.

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John Eldredge, in the voice of Harry Archer:

What in the world is going on here? There must be some logical explanation.

Correction.

There must be some explanation.

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Nora Ephron:

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

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Loren Cunningham:

Disagreements don’t cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

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