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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.
In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.
It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.
A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.
A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.
I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.
Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.
If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.
It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.
I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.
People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.
I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises.
The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.
Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.
Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.
I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.
If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.
This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.