A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

—Jerry Seinfeld

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About Jerry Seinfeld

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Jerome Allen Seinfeld ( SYNE-feld; born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, filmmaker, and television producer specializing in observational comedy. Seinfeld gained stardom playing a fictionalized version of himself in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created and wrote with Larry David. Seinfeld earned a...

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Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

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There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

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The pain-relieving ingredient — there's always got to be a lot of that. Nobody wants anything less than extra-strength. "Give me the maximum allowable human dosage. Figure out what will kill me, and then back it off a little bit.

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My parents took me to Amish country, to see a bunch of people that have no cars, no TV, no phone. . . . Who wants to see a whole community that's been grounded?

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There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."

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The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

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Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.

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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

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