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I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.
Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.
Debts and lies are generally mixed together. [Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.
I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.
I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.
I get very invested in characters; it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.
Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.
You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response.
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.
Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.
If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.
We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.
I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.
In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.
I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.