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Born: 1904-05-15
Profession: Writer
Nation: American
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Tags: Gross, Insomnia, Thinking

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

Tags: Cheese, Leap, Milk

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Tags: Humor, Sense, Understand

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Tags: End, School, Try

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Tags: Experience, Eye, Looks

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Tags: Build, Questions, Tried

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Tags: Between, Choose, Experience

For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Tags: Life, Men, Themselves

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Tags: Happen, Making, Slowly

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

Tags: Eat, Order, Work

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

Tags: Greatest, Mind, Mistakes

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Tags: Book, Classic, Read

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Tags: Lover, Shared, Wine

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Tags: Friends, Friendship, Number

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Tags: Cheese, Leap, Toward

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Tags: Life, Men, Themselves

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

Tags: Art, Business, Profession

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Tags: Banana, Parts, Speech

To feel at home, stay at home.

Tags: Home, Stay

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Tags: History, Human, Wine

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Tags: Book, Classic

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Tags: Country, Remember, Travel

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Tags: Age, Father, Great
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