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Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.
Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.
To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.
Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
I thought I was going to make bigger films for mass audiences. And I wanted that. I actually had in mind a James-Bondian thriller.
A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
Science and technology can solve all the world's problems, and historically it has been shown to make the world better and better.
Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.
As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?
Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition.
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.
It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.
Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.
I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.