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“Tell you what, if there were gays in the army 'Saving Private Ryan' would have been a hell of a lot shorter film. There is no way it would take gay men three hours to find Matt Damon.”
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“When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.”
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“I smoked pot in college and in the Army...”
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“Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.”
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“In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.”
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“It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.”
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“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”
Source : "The Teacher of Literature". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1894.
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“London, dirty little pool of life”
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“The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.”
Source : "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.
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“That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and bound by nothing except the injunction of the Church. Should the same renunciation not be possible if this injunction is replaced by the admonition finally to put an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to give the Almighty Creator beings such as He Himself created?”