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• The most senseless and fit man. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act iii, Sc.
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• What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
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• Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soo
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• A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope big enough for the manuscript to come back in.
  This is too much of a temptation to the editor. -- Ring Lardne...
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  This is too much of a temptation for the editor. -- Ring Lardner, How to Write Short Storie...
• Infancy, n.: The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, Heaven lies about us.
  The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. -- Ambrose Bierce...