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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.


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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.



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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.



Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.



Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.



Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.



I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.



Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?



If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?



The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.



All great art contains an element of the irrational.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.





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Don't be sad don't be angry if life deceives you! Submit to your grief your time for joy will come believe me.



There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.



Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.



God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.



I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.



You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.



There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.



It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.



Brain so good could've sworn you went to college

Brain so good could've sworn you went to college




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