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"Billy Bathgate Discussion With EL Doctorow"

"People pay lip service to saving the planet, but they don't – they fail to make the big leap that if you want to save the planet, kill your fucking self. The planet will be saved without you. And what…"

"When there are such lands there should be profitable things without number."

"This is a terrific outburst. And since it doesn’t have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova. We’ve had at least two reports of a new star."

"Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis"

"I like the story of Chris Rock going on SNL: him telling Lorne "I want to keep my mustache and goatee". And Lorne said to him "In comedy, we put on beards."

"Sir, I have completed the picture which you were kind enough to order, and have executed it with all possible care and conscientiousness. I ought to send it to the Exhibition, where it could be proper…"

"Introversion — along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness — is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology."

"Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

"I argue with lots of things, but I do not argue with my ears."

"When Boswell confessed to Johnson that he feared some things he was entering in his journal were too small, the latter advised him that nothing is too small for so small a creature as man. This is goo…"

"Prussia was not a country with an army, but an army with a country."

"English is the product of a Norman warrior trying to make a date with an Anglo-saxon bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation."

"To the Self the world is but a colourful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all…"

"A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said "no."

"We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of astronomy."

"I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back."

"Rita Dove Homepage at University of Virginia with links to numerous resources"

"Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation."

"Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem."