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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it .

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river .

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.