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It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.
I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.
Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.
You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.
Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.
The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air
We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
He loved what he did, he loved being on Countdown - he just loved life
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.
Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.
Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.
There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.
My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.
It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.
For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.