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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
I would like to die as I have lived disappear among the tundra winds be transformed into birdsong
Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.
Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.
He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.
It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.
But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.
The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.
Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.
If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.
He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.
Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.
I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.
Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.
I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn…yeah, just another day in the life.
Trav, if you cross us -- " "I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror.
Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now
Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night? Michael: Moms like me.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.
Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
Showing a videogame character terrified and scared is something that's not really done that much.