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An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him
Source: My Fair Lady,...
All I want is a room somewhere,
Far away from the cold night air;
With one enormous chair . . .
Oh, wouldn't...
Men die but an idea does not.
Source: The Street Where I Live, 1978.
-- Alan Jay...
You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
Source: Attributed.
-- Alan Jay...
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
Source:...
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or...
Name me no names for my disease
With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these,
But homesick unto...
Existence is beyond the power of words to define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them...
The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Source:...
A leader is best when people barely know he exists.
Source: In The New Webster's...
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven...
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is...
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you...
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult...
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say...
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that...
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Source:...
I come from nothing: but from where
come the undying thoughts I bear?
Source:...
Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again...
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of...