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Harold W. Dodds:

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

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Xun Kuang:

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

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Edmund Crispin:

. . . the faults we most dislike in others are generally those we unwittingly display in ourselves.

Crispin, Edmund, Frequent Hearses (New York: Penguin, 1982), p. 33

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Lynn Redgrave:

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

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Thomas de Quincey:

The public is a bad guesser.

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Bruce Montgomery, writing as Edmund Crispin:

Think of the nice birds, and the nice trees, and the nice bloody atom bombs, and all the things that make life worth living.

Crispin, Edmund, Swan Song (New York: Avon Books, 1918), p. 172

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E. L. Doctorow:

History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

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Walter Kerr:

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

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Arthur Schopenhaur:

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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Hamish Linklater:

I’ve never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I’d give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

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Paul Eldridge:

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz:

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.

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Martin Gardner:

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

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Edmund Crispin:

What a symposium of deadly sins the poor fellow seems to have been . . . .

Spoken by Gervase Fen in Crispin, Edmund, Swan Song (New York: Avon Books, 1947), p. 95

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Dudley Nichols:

Fear is the highest fence.

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Paul Scofield:

If you look around the table and you can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.

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John Astin (as Gomez Addams): Mr. Hilliard may be right. We may have saved the world.

Carolyn Jones (as Morticia Addams): Do you think we did the right thing?

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Gabriel Hetter:

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn’t be a human being, you’d be a game show host.

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Virgil:

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

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Lorene Scofaria:

Routine is part of coping.

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