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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.
Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.
I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school.
PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.