"Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays."

-- Edmund Waller

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“The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.”

Source : "Breakups: Why I Make Movies About Them With My Boyfriend" by Zoe Lister-Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.
“Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.”
“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”
“Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~”
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
“I never played with anything like toys.”
“Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.”
“Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!”

Source : "Book of Jeremiah", IX. 2, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 379-80, 1922.

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