"People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?"

-- Neil Simon

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“In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.”
“I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.”

Source : Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.268, Simon and Schuster
“Donâ€™t try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you.â€ â€œI hate you, too.”
“Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.”

Source : Nicholas Breton (1879). “The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton: Verse”
“I do not choose to be a common man.”

Source : Who's who in America: 43rd Edition, 1984-1985, Volume 1, (p. 42), 1984.
“I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.”
“It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.”
“One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.”

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