A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all … - H. L. Mencken

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I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.

H. L. Mencken

A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.

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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

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