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Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.
I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.
None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.
Unfortunately for me, I was one of these people who took a long time to learn that the material at his feet was fine.
Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.
She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.
Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.
One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!
But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.
Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.
Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.
No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.