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Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's father had done a similar thing when he found he could not buy Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" at any price. The old man had punished Mona Lisa by having her used in an advertising campaign for suppositories. It was the free-enterprise way of handling beauty that threatened to get the upper hand.


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This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.
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Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
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Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
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Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.
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With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.
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I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
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she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the...
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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had...
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Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The...
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldi...
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena...
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to ...
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remed...
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I want to congratulate librarians,...who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democr...
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnie...
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It si...
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic...
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet...
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Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof,...
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As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
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The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and ...
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I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocquevil...
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Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
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All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old...
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To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet an...
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If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do...
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But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Gard...
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And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this...
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Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.
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Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautifu...
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know...
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Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed peopl...
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Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. ...
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Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin a...
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I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantalo...
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The biggest truth to face now – what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my lif...
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When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to rai...
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I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that...
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds ...
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Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough...
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So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewh...
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That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-ba...
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybod...
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Until you die .. it's all life.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.
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All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to so...
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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And so it goes...
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It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be...
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinkin...
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. ...
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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE...
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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, o...
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The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they ...
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Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us e...
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Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live ration...
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The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thi...
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Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling ...
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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I still catch myself feeling blue about things that don't matter anymore.
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained ci...
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental dis...
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Broth...
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All this happened, more or less.
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Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall...
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Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
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The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the ...
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Life is no way to treat an animal.
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which tho...
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I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instea...
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Here is a lesson in creative writing.

First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transve...
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't...
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'I...
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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got t...
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If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

*Harmless untruths
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and...
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Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-co...
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or...
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The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Pr...
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This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to ju...
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My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites,...
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism ...
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
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This is a beguiling book,
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and I'm whistling as beautifully as I can.
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our P...
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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
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The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the hu...
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What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as gla...
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Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the...
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscie...
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The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I ...
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Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It m...
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagian...
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Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over...
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless...
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, sh...
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There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent ...
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Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will s...
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