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Charm is makeup for men.

Do doh da dada tay

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Can I finish what I wanna say? I don’t wanna interupt your interruption, dude. Are those ears strickly ornamental or do ever use them?

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of

If this isn’t nice, then what is?

I’m guaranteed to rock I make the ladies scream and shout I’m bound to wreck your body and say “turn the party out”

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Paradise is separated from hell only by an imaginary line, so it is said.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

It’s not the easiest thing to try and put a smile on a face. But it’s always worth it.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning‐bug and the lightning.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

In his highest flights, musical and architectural above all, for they are one, man gives the illusion of rivaling the order, the majesty and the splendor of the heavens.

How to write a good short story:

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

It was as undesigned as possible.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.