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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.
Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.
What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.
I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.
Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .
My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.
1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.
None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.
Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.
When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.