If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

—Wilson Mizner

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About Wilson Mizner

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Wilson Mizner ( MIZE-ner) (May 19, 1876 – April 3, 1933) was an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1911. He was manager and co-owner of the restaurant The Brown Derby in Los Angeles, California, and...

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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

—Wilson Mizner

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

—Wilson Mizner

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If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

—Wilson Mizner

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

—Wilson Mizner

My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

—Wilson Mizner

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well-ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

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You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system.

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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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