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There were a great many in vaudeville - people who never quite came through. But they had their place, and they filled it. They kept theatres open. Those pan-timers, those interstate-timers, those four-a-dayers, those six-a-dayers - they were an integral part of that endearing merry-go-round called vaudeville. ”
O earth, what changes hast thou seen! ”
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ”
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ”
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ”
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. ”
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ”
I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing. ”
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. ”
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man. ”