There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

Margaret Atwood

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[On Oscar Wilde:]

"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.

[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]

Dorothy Parker

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The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.

Oscar Wilde

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