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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We are born lucky. Yes, we are born lucky.
-- The Old Man and the Sea

This one goes out to matociquala:

From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov - prolific American author

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
- Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing permanent except change.
-- Heraclitus

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. --Mark Twain

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin

Yvonne: Where were you last night?
Rick: That's so long ago, I don't remember.
Yvonne: Will I see you tonight?
Rick: I never make plans that far ahead.

RICK: Who are you really? And what were you before? What did you do and what did you think? Huh? ILSA: We said "no questions."

Retreat hell! We're just fighting in the other direction!

"Silence is a friend who will never betray." - Confucius

Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
-- Ferenc Mantfeld

"Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto." ("I am human; nothing human is alien to me.")
-- Terence, Heauton Timoroumenos

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill

EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
-- General Robert E. Lee

"Consequences, shmonsequences! So long as I'm rich!" -- Daffy Duck

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing." -- Gamel Abdel Nasser

Winston Churchill: "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

I know all the rules. But if the rules don't fit, I break the rules rather than the music.
Egon Petri

There's no doubt about it. Ragtime is the happiest music ever invented.
Jim Aikin

They say that time changes
things, but you actually have to change them yourself. —Andy Warhol

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne

I don't remember Christ ever preaching Against People Who Made Stuff Up, or the chapter in Matthew about Jesus throwing the Fantasy Authors out of the Temple.
Neil Gaiman

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing for money" -13th Rule of Acquisition