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Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings.
Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.
I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.
Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
A man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams.
What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.
Guten Morgen, mon ami!Heute ist es schönes Wetter!Charmé de vous voir ici!Never saw you looking better!
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.
How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.
I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.
A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.
It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.
There's something very bizarre about having a father who has disappeared. It's very hard to articulate.
For an overwhelming majority of my life, my country has been a source of pain, fear, and embarrassment.
It is evident that Qaddafi is mentally unwell. Like Richard III, he has barricaded himself within lies.
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.