"An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall."

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Oscar Levant

#Wise Quotes #Carnegie Quotes #Carnegie Hall Quotes

“It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.”

Source : Agence France Presse, en.wikipedia.org. November 15, 1998.
“I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.”
“What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.”
“My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. Theyâ€™re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country itâ€™s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They donâ€™t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.”

Source : "Steve Shannon for attorney general", pilotonline.com. October 26, 2009.
“Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.”
“The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.”
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

Source : Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin
“For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.”

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