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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.
I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I’ll come apart.
I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.
I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.
When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.
We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.
There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.