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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.
Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.
I've always felt there are three sexes: men, women, and actors. And actors combine the worst qualities of the other two.
Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.
Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.
It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.
Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
I am just trying to die on the stage just as simple as that. I just like going in man. Just give it my all and enjoy it.
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.
The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.
If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.