Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ""I don't know.""

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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

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