The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(01/17/1600 – 05/25/1681)
Spanish writer
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| "'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell."
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"Kill no more pigeons than you can eat."
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"Do you recall the Alington poodle—exactly like a typhoid germ magnified."
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"I would not send a poor girl into the world... ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself."
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"I don't understand anything about ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."
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"When they circumcised Herbert Samuel, they threw away the wrong bit."
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"Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors."
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"I am the law!"
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"We never make sport of religion, politics, race, or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law—yes. But mothers—never."
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"Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast."
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"I hear it's the Hebrew in Heaven, sir. Spanish is seldom spoken."
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"I don't even know what street Canada is on."
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"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
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"I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork."
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| "All creatures must learn to coexist. Thats why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Or course, they cant mate or the mice would explode." |  |
"I am the original Material Girl."
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| "My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective." |  |
"The first black president will be a politician who is black."
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"It just as easily could have gone the other way."
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| "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up." |  |
"I didn't think it was going anywhere, which just shows you how wrong you can be ... At the time, it seemed like the thing to do."
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"Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."
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"But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads."
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"Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass."
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"It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s."
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| Died 01/16 | Died 01/17 | Died 01/18 | Death Dates |