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Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?
If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.
Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.
Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.
Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.
Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.
Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.
The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.
Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.