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Francisco Goya:

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

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Groucho Marx:

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

Afterthought:

I can’t provide the citation, but Bennett Cerf once wrote that Groucho also said,

My television has a six-foot screen. It’s a Japanese screen.

I put it front of the television and read a book.

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Philip K. Dick:

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

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Cheryl Mills:

We cannot uphold the rule of law only when it is consistent with our beliefs. We must uphold it even when it protects behavior that we don’t like or is unattractive or is not admirable or that might even be hurtful.

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Rex Stout:

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man’s decisions are based on his rational process. That I don’t believe at all.

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Chuck Yeager:

It’s really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can’t help me. I’m the only one who can help me.

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Jean Kerr:

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.

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Ma Jian:

When history is erased, people’s moral values are also erased.

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Robert Young (as Mark Brandon in The Valley of the Kings):

I’ve never seen it fail with self-centered people: they always have some sort of noble excuse for themselves.

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Celeste Holm:

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

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Katherine Anne Porter:

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

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Robert van Gulik:

He reflected–a little sadly–that there was no substitute for youth.

van Gulik, Robert, Necklace and Calabash (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 59

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Tom Clancy:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald:

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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Peter Carey:

The failure of the U.S.’s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.’s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

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Julia Sawalha, as Carla Borrega:

Life is bollocks, really, isn’t it?

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Alan Arkin:

No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.

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Vachav Havel:

Lying can never save us from another lie.

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Rex Stout:

Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective.

Stout, Rex, The Silent Speaker (New York: Bantam, 1958), p. 117

(QOTD was late to work today.)

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Erich Fromm:

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

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