I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

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The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down.

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