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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
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If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Source: Asimov's Guide to Science (1972) p. 15 -
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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If music be the breakfast food of love, kindly do not disturb until lunch time.
Source: Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (1958) -
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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