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“My girlfriend said, ‘Emo, I'm seeing another man.’ I said, ‘Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.’" - Emo Phillips

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.” - Mark Twain

“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.” - Aldous Huxley

So Reep, did you just buy a book of quotes or something?

"The armless ambidextrian was lighting a match between his great and second toe."
-- MacLeish, "The End of the World."

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." J. R. R. Tolkien

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." J. R. R. Tolkien

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence." J. R. R. Tolkien

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." J. R. R. Tolkien

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish." J. R. R. Tolkien

"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to." J. R. R. Tolkien in a letter to his son, Michael Tolkien, March 1941

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door." J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"I thought about procrastinating one day, but I never got around to it." - Unknown

Drake: No. I'm a writer. I own and have read seven books of quotations during the last forty years.


“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out the window.” - Burton Rascoe

“He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.” - Charles Lamb

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching.” - Morley Callaghan

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” - Henry David Thoreau

“If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.” - Emma Goldman

“When you forget to eat you know you are alive.” - Henry Miller

“He’s the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.” Mae West

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” - Mark Van Doren

“Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.” Chinese proverb

“I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, ‘Get off me, you two!’" - Emo Phillips

“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.” - Albert Camus

“Occasional vulgarity is the by-product of the vitality and passion without which there can be no great art.” - Francis Toye

“Art is not a thing, it is a way.” - Elbert Hubbard

Three Quotes About Editors

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” - H. G. Wells

“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” - Jules Renard

“Some people read because they are too lazy to think.” - G.C. Lichtenberg

"I want to die painting." - Paul Cezanne

“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.” - Jon Stewart

"Am I a man dreaming that I am a butterfly,
or a bowling ball dreaming that I'm a plate of sashimi?
Never assume that what you see and feel is real"-Doreen, Chrono Trigger

"Lick it up, baby -- Lick. It. UP."
-- Veronica "Heathers."

"Let's take a bite (chomp) out of crime!"
-- McGruff, the Crime Dog

"another picture of a girl with a gun to bore me."
-- Bikini Kill

“Genius is the highest type of reason - talent the highest type of understanding.” L.P. Hickock

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” - Barry LePatner

“Archie doesn’t know how to worry without getting upset.” - Edith Bunker

“”Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.” - Frank Moore Colby

“Impropriety is the soul of wit.” - Somerset Maugham