"'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again."

-- Matthew Perry

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.”
“Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.”
“Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment â€“ well done, very polished, with a very effective technique â€“ but not literature, just entertainment.”
“It's a wonderful life and I love it.”
“Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.”
“To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.”
“Maybe necrophiliacs are just people that want to have sex without a lot of talking.”

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