"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved."

Carson, Johnny on life   

"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury."

Chaplin, Charlie on luxury
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"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."

Chaplin, Charlie on acting and actors   

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

Chaplin, Charlie on laughter
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"In the end, everything is a gag."

Chaplin, Charlie on humor   

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

Chaplin, Charlie on the future
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"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."

Chandler, Raymond on death   

"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you."

Chandler, Raymond on death   

"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."

Chandler, Raymond on criticism   

"Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck."

Chandler, Raymond on business   

"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."

Chandler, Raymond on smile   

"A really good detective never gets married."

Chandler, Raymond on police   

"However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money."

Chandler, Raymond on money   

"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."

Chandler, Raymond on advertising
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"My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken]"

Chan, Jackie on body   

"It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear."

Cavett, Dick on listening
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"To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is."

Cavett, Dick on intelligence and intellectuals   

"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man."

Cash, Johnny on learning   

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

Chaplin, Charlie on public   

"I'm a hopeful cynic."

Chapman, Tracy on cynics and cynicism
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"Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for."

Cocteau, Jean on poetry and poets   

"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."

Cocteau, Jean on art   

"Tact is knowing how far to go too far."

Cocteau, Jean on tact and tactfulness
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"The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness."

Cocteau, Jean on wisdom   

"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

Cocteau, Jean on addiction
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"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."

Cocteau, Jean on criticism
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"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."

Cocteau, Jean on death   

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

Cocteau, Jean on death   

"The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders."

Cocteau, Jean on obedience
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"Life is a horizontal fall."

Cocteau, Jean on life
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"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."

Charles, Ray on greatness
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"I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line."

Charles, Ray on money
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"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."

Charles, Ray on trials
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"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."

Chase, Chevy on acting and actors   

"I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like."

Cher on insecurity   

"Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries."

Cher on men
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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Chopin, Frederic on apathy
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"I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them."

Clark, Dick on novelty   

"There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm."

Sills, Beverly on women
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