'Hamlet' has been played by 5,000 actors -- no wonder he's crazy.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.H. L. Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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The man of creative imagination pays a ghastly price for all his superiorities and immunities. . .
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The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making 100,000 a year.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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