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If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the
separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience,
it might well prolong his life.
 Ambrose Bierce
I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a
novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
 Ambrose Bierce
Exxon's 'Universe of Energy' tends to the peculiar rather than the
humorous ... After [an incomprehensible film montage about wind and sun and
rain and strip mines and] two or three minutes of mechanical confusion, the
seats locomote through a short Ambrose Bierce
To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.
 Ambrose Bierce
Well begun is half done.
 Ambrose Bierce
She applies her lipstick in spite of its contents: "greasy rouge,
containing crushed and dried insect corpses for coloring, beeswax for
stiffness, and olive oil to help it flow - the latter having the
unfortunate tendency to go rancid several hours a Ambrose Bierce
Yevtushenko has... an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of twenty feet.
 Bierce
Ambrose
And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.
 Bierce
Ambrose
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my
teacher was in my class for five years.
 Bierce
Ambrose
History is nothing but a collection of fables and useless trifles,
cluttered up with a mass of unnecessary figures and proper names.
 Bierce
Ambrose
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
 Bierce
Ambrose
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
 Bierce Ambrose
All phone calls are obscene.
 Bierce Ambrose
Nothing succeeds like success.
 Bierce Ambrose
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows
what they are.
 Bierce Ambrose
If the Nazis had television with satellite technology, we'd all be
goose-stepping. Americans are just as suggestible.
 Bierce Ambrose
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All Gods were immortal.
 Stanislaw J. Lem
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