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Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.
Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.
Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.
Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve.
Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.
When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
What is beyond the mind, has no boundary, In it our senses end.
Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.