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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.
I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.
We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.
The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.
Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.
When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.
Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.
Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.
Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life.
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.