Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
-- Mae West
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
-- Philip Guedalla
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
-- Roger Moore
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
-- Anonymous
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-- Jack London
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
-- Floyd Dell
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
-- Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act 2
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