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"When General Osborne came to see me just after the victory, he asked me what I thought should be done to educate the Germans. I said there is only one thing to be done and that is to teach them disobe…"

"Towards Livia, too, exorbitant was the flattering court of the Senate. Some were for decreeing her the general title of Mother; others the more particular one of Mother Of Her Country; and almost all …"

"It must be very painful to a man of Lord Hugh Cecil's natural benevolence and human charity to find so many of God's children wandering simultaneously so far astray ... In these circumstances I would …"

"My mother said I was a weird child. I had about 15 imaginary friends and talked to myself, a lot. I still do sometimes - I love the power of pretend. Now I channel all those voices into my characters.…"

"My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again."

"When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?"

"...what about those people whom we received without question for years to our shores , who, after we did so and gave them equal rights with the sons and daughters of our own households, abused hospita…"

"These men — Yeats, James Stephens, and the rest — had aristocratic minds. For them, the world was not fragmented. An idea did not suddenly grow … all alone and separate. For them, all things had long …"

"A system whereby each child told the parent how hungry he was would be ideal for the parent, and, as we have seen, such a system seems to have evolved. But the young are in a strong position to lie, b…"

"Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: )))."

"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."

"Careers are for Now, Children are Forever."

"You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife."

"I try never to brag but I'm probably the only person who has been on 60 Minutes twice and isn't dead."

"Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything."

"Rawlings was a burglar and a thief, but like much of the London underworld he would not have anyone “trash” his country. It is a fact that convicted traitors in prison, along with child molesters, hav…"

"My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats."

"If this strikes you as a trivial subject to write about, you're wrong. Really. Bollocks to the rest of you. I could've sat through live 3D news footage of some gruesome bloody war, watching starving w…"

"Cit. via "Wizard Edison", The Newark Advocate , lk 1"

"Apart from autograph hunters, I get... many letters from Hindus, beseeching me to adopt some form of mysticism, from young Americans, asking me where I think the line should be drawn in petting, and f…"