"I never lecture, not because I am..." - Quote by H L Mencken
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”
“I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.”
“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.”
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“A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.”
“Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.”
“One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.”
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“If you're gonna be free, you gotta stop caring what everyone thinks.”
“No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.”
“If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.”