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How great in number are the little minded men
There's only one truth about war: people die.
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
What I like most about Bolano is his courage.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
What is essential does not die but clarifies.
It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.
I like the notion of theater as recreational.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
The best style is the style you don't notice.
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
Aging and death is what happens to everybody.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
The last night of love, the first night of war
Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
death is always sudden however long one waits.
I always believe things are going to work out.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity
The most sincere form of love is love for food
What is life but a series of inspired follies.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
There's no place more theatrical than history.
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever
I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.
My dream is to have a small company in France.
Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.