"You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother."

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“Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.”

“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self — in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”

“Women in History: Clare Boothe Luce”

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

“You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.”

Resonant Thoughts

"I know what his poetry will be about. What poetry is always about. The cruelty of the poet's mistress."

— Martin Amis

Literature1949–2023

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"I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes. If people learn something about the news by watching the show, that i…"

— Stephen Colbert

Literature1964

#knowledge

"The thing is that there aren’t many stories told that are being shown to everybody from this, so any opportunity that I have to see a project that we could just release that to people that they could …"

— David Zayas

Entertainment1962

#life

"Man is infinitely concerned about the infinity to which he belongs, from which he is separated, and for which he is longing. Man is totally concerned about the totality which is his true being and whi…"

— Paul Tillich

Religion1886–1965

#truth