Daniel Mainwaring quotes
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“All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.”
-- Daniel MainwaringSource : "Fictional character: Eels". "Out of the Past", 1947.
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“Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.”
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“The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.”
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“I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.”
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“You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.”
-- Daniel MainwaringSource : "Fictional character: Fisher". "Out of the Past", www.imdb.com. 1947.
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“Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.”
-- Daniel MainwaringSource : "Fictional character: Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman". "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", www.imdb.com. 1956.
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.”
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“I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.”
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“The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.”
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“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”
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