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I had been...

I had been...

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to...

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The thought that...

The thought that...

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keep us going.

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Animals awaken, first...

Animals awaken, first...

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its...

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The idealist walks...

The idealist walks...

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his talons.

Source: Sens...

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Democracy consists of...

Democracy consists of...

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to...

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Keep your face...

Keep your face...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Source: In The...

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The hatred of...

The hatred of...

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be...

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All propaganda or...

All propaganda or...

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly...

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The world I...

The world I...

The world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

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The man who...

The man who...

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

Source: Love and...

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Life may have...

Life may have...

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

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A nickname is...

A nickname is...

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we...

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One cannot raise...

One cannot raise...

One cannot raise the bottom of society without benefitting everyone above.

Source:...

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It is not...

It is not...

It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature. Poverty,...

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Most of us...

Most of us...

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics donÆt work.

Source: In...

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There's a helluva...

There's a helluva...

There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with...

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We appreciate frankness...

We appreciate frankness...

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

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Once we thought,...

Once we thought,...

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough facts ... and gave them a fast stir, we...

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What we do...

What we do...

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the...

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Effort only fully...

Effort only fully...

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Source: In

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