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Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.
I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.
A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.
We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.
Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.
I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.
For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).
Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.
There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor.
I feel nervous because I revere [Zadie Smith] so much. I don't want to be stupid. If I say something stupid, just interrupt me.
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.
To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.
Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.
I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.
I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.
O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.
I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.