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is mathematically compounded of ambition, distraction, uglification and derision

May we take it that he was in exceptionally lively spirits?" suggested Counsel. "Take it in any spirit you like," muttered the witness, adding, more happily, "Take a peg of John Begg.

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

I can't write five words but that I change seven.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

When asked by her publisher why her work had not been submitted while on her honeymoon: I've been too fucking busy or vice versa

For years I have been crouching in corners hissing small and ladylike anathema of Theodore Dreiser.

Dance, you jazz-mad puppets of fate, and

The second act, indeed, might have been used to good advantage to start the play off with, and all the words that preceded it could have been saved for future use. Thriftily managed, they would have served the author for the next three years.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

race was presumed to be an essential biological category. This is not a happy-ending tale of science overcoming racism.

The fighting over Norplant assumed that Black women's reproduction is a proper arena for social regulation.

I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request.

Prohibition, unfortunately, lures criminals. Simple as that. Creates 'em, even.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Ford! he said, there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. Is there any tea on this spaceship? he asked.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is. (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)