New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
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