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Quote by H.L. Mencken
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the unive

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. – H.L. Mencken

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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. – H.L. Mencken

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Ghosts
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken

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Bores
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. – H.L. Mencken

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Life
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. – Mason Cooley

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An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. – Albert Einstein (relativity)

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I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry

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An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur. – S.A. Sachs

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There are characters in movies who I call film characters. They dont exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Frugality is misery in disguise. – Publilius Syrus

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