"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." -- Mark Twain in the frontispiece of HUCK FINN
"(Mankind's) self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order." -- Walter Benjamin (via Fred Inglis in MEDIA THEORY)
"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly." -- Rosalind Russell (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)
"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Forgiveness is the fragrance a violet sheds on the heel that crushed it." -- Mark Twain
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." -- Peter De Vries (via Sheri Radford)
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." -- Vince Lombardi (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)
"I'll take a stand when there's no place to sit." -- KRAY
"I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!" -- David Howard (Albert Brooks) in LOST IN AMERICA
"We have to be continually jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down." -- Kurt Vonnegut
LUCY: Haven't we met somplace before?
RICKY: That's possible. I've BEEN someplace before.
-- from I LOVE LUCY
"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality." -- Djuna Barnes in NIGHTWOOD
"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example." -- Duc de la Rochefoucald (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)
"I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions." -- Helen Keller
"First Class is the problem, Honey. It used to mean a better meal. Now it means a better life." -- Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) in JERRY McGUIRE
"The distinction between organized crime and certain aspects of government activity is often indistinguishable." -- Serhiy Holovaty (via THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
"They served grim teas, on trays of Benares brass, and talked about the dead." -- Jonathan Raban in HUNTING MISTER HEARTBREAK
"Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensible." -- Kin (or Elbert) Hubbard (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)
"If your fastball's good enough, you don't need a curve, but nobody's fastball is THAT good." -- Tom Ensey
"The real middle class... now consisted of that uniformed army whose job it was to save the rich from the unwelcome attentions of the poor." -- Jonathan Raban in HUNTING MISTER HEARTBREAK
"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." -- George Orwell (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)
