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The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

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I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.

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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

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Good taste is the enemy of creativity

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

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Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

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I hate quotations.

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