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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.


Robert Penn Warren

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PENN JILLETTE Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex,...
PENN JILLETTE Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point d...
PENN JILLETTE Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
PENN JILLETTE Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
WILLIAM PENN Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
WILLIAM PENN Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to...
WILLIAM PENN Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unles...
WILLIAM PENN A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
WILLIAM PENN Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen
WILLIAM PENN Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live w...
WILLIAM PENN Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman w...
WILLIAM PENN A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him
WILLIAM PENN When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.&...
PENN JILLETTE Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
PENN JILLETTE I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosp...
PENN JILLETTE I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
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