"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."
-H. L. Mencken
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"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands."
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"Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them."
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"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier."
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"Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too."
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"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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