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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.
The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.
How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.
The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.
Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.
It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.
Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.
Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.
The measure of a man's life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear.
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
Fame is not your friend. It ain't necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.
What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.
Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.
I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.
The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.