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I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
— Mamie Van Doren
I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?
— Mamie Van Doren
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
— Charles Van Doren
I never wanted to see another quiz show.
— Charles Van Doren
Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.
— Charles Van Doren
("A classic is a book that remains in print" - Mark Van Doren)
— Thomas Merton
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
you have to understand in order to disagree.
— Charles Van Doren
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
— Mark Van Doren
I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
— Mamie Van Doren
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.
— Mark Van Doren
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
— Charles Van Doren
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
— Mark Van Doren
My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
— Mamie Van Doren
My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
— Charles Van Doren
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
— Mamie Van Doren
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception ... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
— Charles Van Doren
I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
— Mamie Van Doren
Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.
— Mark Van Doren
It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
— Mamie Van Doren
He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.
— Mamie Van Doren
Great periods of poetry begin with an inordinate self-consciousness, and only gradually attain to the natural.
— Mark Van Doren
I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
— Mamie Van Doren
I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
— Charles Van Doren
I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.
— Charles Van Doren
It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly.
— Mark Van Doren
For Tolstoy ... anything that human beings do has its glory ... I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
— Mark Van Doren
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
— Mark Van Doren
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
— Mark Van Doren
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
— Mark Van Doren
Our best chance for happiness is education.
— Mark Van Doren
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
— Carl Van Doren
I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.
— Charles Van Doren
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
