"If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family."

-- Quentin Crisp

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“Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.”
“The next level, by definition, is something you can't see and you can't understand...”
“There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.”
“All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.”
“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”

Source : J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”
“The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.55, Penguin UK
“I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass.”
“I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.”

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