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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.
The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.
I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.
Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you
God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.
One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.