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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. John Buchan

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. Louis Nizer

Man is a bubble, and all the world is a storm. Jeremy Taylor

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Jim Carrey

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosy...doesn’t try it on. Billy Connolly

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A happy man may be a successful bishop, dog-catcher, movie actor or sausage-monger, but no happy man ever produced a first-rate piece of painting, sculpture, music or literature. George Jean Nathan

For those of us who are at least partially dependent on the big bookstore chain: Do you visit them? What's your sense of how they're doing?

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.” Christopher Morley

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. Yiddish Proverb