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Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whi...more

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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whi...more

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The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent ver...more

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Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

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No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

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I like to think of this little [newspaper] column as a brassière, or do I mean brasserie? Brazier, possibly. All three! A column that lifts, separates...more

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There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a ro...more

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Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to tak...more