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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.
I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.
It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.
Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.
...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.
I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.
There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.
It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.
Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.
She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.
Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.