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"At the beginning of the empire, the tax rates were low and the revenues were high. At the end of the empire, the tax rates were high and the revenues were low."
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| "Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession." | |
"Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened."
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"Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body."
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"The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is."
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"Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan."
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"Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."
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"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."
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"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
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| "'Gothic' is just a word recalling a multitude of sins!" |  |
"An ego that can crack crystal at a distance of twenty feet."
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| "Lay off for three weeks, and then quit for good." |  |
| "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." |
"An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he has someone to look up to."
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"There are many vampires in the world today—you only have to think of the film business."
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"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name."
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| "Only the wittol knows he's no cuckold." |  |
"My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight."
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| "Did you ever notice, the only one in 'A Christmas Carol' with any character is Scrooge? Marley is a whiner who f*&^ed over the world and then hadn't the spine to pay his dues quietly; Belle, Scrooge's ex-girlfriend, deserted him when he needed her most; Bob Cratchit is a gutless toady without enough get-up-and-go to assert himself; and the less said about that little treacle-mouth, Tiny Tim, the better." |  |
"Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else."
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| Died 05/26 | Died 05/27 | Died 05/28 | Death Dates |