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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
If you run away from trouble, it always follows.
If you know how to live, even death is good news
Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.
We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.
People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.
Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
If there are no books. There is no civilization.
Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.
Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.
Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
But everything of value about me is in my books.
At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Self love is the instrument of our preservation.
A good imitation is the most perfect originality
True power and true politeness are above vanity.
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
Remember, your worth is founded in Jesus Christ.
My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.
A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Those who can command themselves command others.
The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.
The prayer is up to us; the answer is up to God.