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Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect. Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that. Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about. The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances. To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem. A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. Life is an effort that deserves a better cause. Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. The world belongs to the energetic. There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service. A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. O why was I born with a different face? During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join. Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory. A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. Vox populi, vox humbug. Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night. Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? I am into parallel monogamy. The only cure for grief is action. Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints. The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with. Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! |
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