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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

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The Giants on the Mountain by Luigi Pirandello.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.

It was a monstrous big river down there.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

You know what's funny to me? You know what's really funny to me? The fact that you've been calling Lita the walking kiss of death, but tonight.. the walking KOD beat the walking STD.

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.