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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
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Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
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Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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