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W. C. Fields Quotes

W. C. Fields

American comedian and actor

Nationality: American
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Type: Comedian
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Birth: 1880-1946
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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actor
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.
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Criticism should be a casual conversation.
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The critical opinions of a Writershould always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
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Fame often makes a Writervain, but seldom makes him proud.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the Writerto observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
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We must love one another or die.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
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Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority
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As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is pray
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You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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