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No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!
She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.
The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.
The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote.
Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on my life is my mom, followed pretty closely by my dad.
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children.
The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.
For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradictThe hopes of my youth?
We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.
if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.
The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.