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“Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith, All trivia: Trivia, More trivia, Afterthoughts, Last words

“Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.”
― Woody Allen

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.”
― Woody Allen

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
― Woody Allen

“Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”
― Woody Allen

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
― Woody Allen

“I can levitate birds. No one cares.”
― Woody Allen

“Lust starts with chemistry. Love starts with trust and respect.”
― Marian Lanouette, If I Fail

“I fell in love with your eyes first because I looked into their depths and saw the other half of my soul.”
― R.K. Lilley, Grounded

“They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought. They knew the terrible history of the church too well to place in her keeping or in the keeping of her God the sacred rights of man. They intended that all should have the right to worship or not to worship that our laws should make no distinction on account of creed. They intended to found and frame a government for man and for man alone. They wished to preserve the individuality of all to prevent the few from governing the many and the many from persecuting and destroying the few.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

“Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ”
― Robert G. Ingersoll

“It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you loved and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; he does not tremble; he is not old; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart. I like to think of it in that way; I like to think that love is eternal. And to love in that way and then go down the hill of life together, and as you go down, hear, perhaps, the laughter of grandchildren, while the birds of joy and love sing once more in the leafless branches of the tree of age.”
― Robert Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

“As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I have been known to walk away from something simply on principle...and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.”
― Shelley K. Wall

“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Humans really can be such curiously artistic creatures. They make unquestionably beautiful things when they put their minds to it. It is an interesting paradox of the species, given the small-mindedness of so many, and their propensity for destruction in all its forms.”
― J.C. Andrijeski, Quentin Black Mystery Collection