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“This is not the position in life that I had hoped to fill. I want to be an obstetrician. Who quarrels with an obstetrician? Even the obstetrician who delivered Bugsy Siegel goes to bed at night with a clear conscience.”
― Philip Roth, The Anatomy Lesson

“A story given in Lillian Hellman's Scoundrel Time.

While attending the funeral of Hollywood producer Harry Cohn with a large number of mourners a friend said to George Jessel - I never saw such a mob at a funeral.

Jessel replied - Same old story: you give 'em what they want and they'll fill the theater.”
― George Jessel

“A ridiculous old age is perhaps the saddest and ultimate surprise human nature may have in store.”
― Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

“The vegetable kingdom still remains one of the few which Napoleon has not yet conquered.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Uncle Bernac