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David Adams Richards

“What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.”

Source : Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.63, Da Capo Press
“Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, heâ€™s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors heâ€™s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, heâ€™s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.”
“TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.”

Source : Letter to Groucho Marx, in 'The Groucho Letters' (1967) p. 114
“I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.”
“It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.”
“Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.”
“Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.”

Source : William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin”, p.156
“Life is a very emotional experience.”

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