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#1
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
―
Allen Saunders
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“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”
―
Jane Austen,
Mansfield Park
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#3
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
―
Douglas Adams
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#4
“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
―
W.C. Fields
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#5
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
―
Oscar Wilde,
Lady Windermere's Fan
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#6
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
―
P.G. Wodehouse,
The Code of the Woosters
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495 likes
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#7
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
―
P.G. Wodehouse,
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
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684 likes
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#8
“A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.”
―
Oscar Levant
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#9
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
―
Napoleon Bonaparte
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#10
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
―
Albert Camus
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#11
“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
―
Peter De Vries
tags:
humor
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writing
348 likes
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#12
“I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.”
―
Mel Brooks
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#13
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
―
Tom Clancy
tags:
life
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#14
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
―
Robert Benchley
tags:
fame
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writing
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#15
“Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again”
―
Mary Pickford
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