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The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.

- Cullen Hightower

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

- Paul Valery

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

- Joseph Addison

The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

- Leon Edel

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

- William Wordsworth

He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

- Mae West

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

- John Cage

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

- Countess of Blessington

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn’t do anywhere else.

- Tom Bradley

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

- Richard Burton