Quote #12

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

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  1. And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
  2. I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the…
  3. [On the most beautiful words in the English language] The ones I like...are 'cheque' and 'enclosed.'
  4. One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
  5. Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
  6. There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
  7. [A] lady ... with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.
  8. It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

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