...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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