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If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.
How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.
Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.
Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]
I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.
My greatest love is my children, and they have inspired me to fight and stand up for the right things.
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.
I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.