Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

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Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"" is worth any number of old ladies.

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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