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Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.
Hatred observes with more care than love does.
Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.
With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.
Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.
Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.
Commitments, not feelings, hold life together.
Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.
An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.
Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.
Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.
Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.
Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.
The pleasantest part of work is having done it.
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.
Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.
To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.
Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.
If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.
If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.
Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
The realism of failure, the romance of success.
Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.
Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.
Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.