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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.
I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.
The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.
I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.
I don't use the word minority because there is nothing minor about me.
You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.
If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.
I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.
There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.
When you collect photographs, you're sort of at the mercy of the gods.
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness