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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.
In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.
I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.
Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.
What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.
The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.
If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.
Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.
It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears
If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.
I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.
There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.
It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.
As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.
That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.