122 Quotes by Mort Sahl


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    Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?

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    New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.

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    The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.

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    Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.

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    There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

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    I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?

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    Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?

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