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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.
A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones
If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.
The only people who live in Brooklyn are people who can't afford the East Village.
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff
It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy.
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'
An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.
nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.
No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.