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Anthony Powell: Growing old's like...

Anthony Powell: Growing old's like...

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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Michael Crichton: In the information...

Michael Crichton: In the information...

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish...

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Mario Puzo: He was. ....

Mario Puzo: He was. ....

He was. . . a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war...

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Mary McCarthy: The happy ending...

Mary McCarthy: The happy ending...

The happy ending is our national belief.

Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1, America...

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Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite,...

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John LeCarre: I move my...

John LeCarre: I move my...

I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

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Epictetus: He who exercises...

Epictetus: He who exercises...

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Source: In The...

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Emile M Cioran: Speech and silence....

Emile M Cioran: Speech and silence....

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his...

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Charles Peguy: Any father whose...

Charles Peguy: Any father whose...

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against...

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Charles Peguy: Everything begins in...

Charles Peguy: Everything begins in...

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: We should call...

Friedrich Nietzsche: We should call...

We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Only the most...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Only the most...

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Once spirit was...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Once spirit was...

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Source:...

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Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of...

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J R R Tolkien: Faithless is he...

J R R Tolkien: Faithless is he...

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Source: The dwarf Gimli,...

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Antonio Porchia: You do not...

Antonio Porchia: You do not...

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Source:...

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Immanuel Kant: Out of timber...

Immanuel Kant: Out of timber...

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be...

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John Bunyan: Some said, John,...

John Bunyan: Some said, John,...

Some said, John, print it; other said, Not so:
Some said, It might do good; others said,...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: There is a...

Mary McLeod Bethune: There is a...

There is a place in God's sun for the youth farthest down who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to...

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Clever people seem...

Clever people seem...

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief...

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