Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and poet.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man...who has no gills.
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Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.