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“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”

“The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.”

“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
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“Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.”

“Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.”

Source: Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays

“A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.”

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“Or is it that I think too much?”

Steve Martin book The Pleasure of My Company

Source: The Pleasure of My Company

“Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.”

Source: L.A. Story and Roxanne: Screenplays

“Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.”

“Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

“The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”

Source: An Object of Beauty

“There are few takers for the quiet heart.”

Steve Martin book The Pleasure of My Company

Source: The Pleasure of My Company

“Always… no wait… never…..”

“I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”

“… just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Variant: It's pain that changes our lives.
Source: Shopgirl

“With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.”

Steve Martin book The Pleasure of My Company

Source: The Pleasure of My Company

“When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.”

Source: An Object of Beauty