Quote #124

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

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  1. There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers- most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may…
  2. We have the power to bore people long after we are dead.
  3. The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, 'The trouble with this country is...'
  4. Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
  5. The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
  6. When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
  7. Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
  8. When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

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