"Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language."

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Source : 1933 Miss Lonely hearts.

Nathanael West

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“I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.”
“So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.”
“I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!”
“Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.”
“Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too”
“Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.”
“A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.”

Source : Chauncey Mitchell DePew (2005). “My Memories of Eighty Years”, p.318, Cosimo, Inc.
“The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.”

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