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Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn...
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and...
Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has...
In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and...
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to...
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're...
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Source:...
Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be...
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow...
They will review a book by a writer much older than themselves as if it were an over-ambitious essay by a second-year...
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about...
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in...
We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The...
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed...
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by...
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human...
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which...
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.