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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.
Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.
What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.
For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.
Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it.
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.
By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.
It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.
I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.
Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts
Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.
You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.
Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.
I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.
The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.
[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.
The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.
I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?
I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.