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Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
-- Paul Simon

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
-- John Keats

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
-- John Donne

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- John Gilmore

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand gay guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"
-- John Stewart

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
-- John Galsworthy

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
-- John Gall ("Systemantics")

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
-- John Ciardi

Quality without creativity is pompous;
Creativity without quality is infantile.

-- John Cerruti

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
-- John LeCarre

"Drive in no traffic and leave the turn signal on, it doesn't make any difference"
-- John Glenn (on why space would be a good place for seniors to live)

"I have to find a way of saying the truth without saying it; that is exactly what is literature, after all: clever lies which only secretly say the truth."
-- Simone de Beauvoir

"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."
-- John Updike