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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most...
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next...
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English,...
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into...
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the nonself that there is no self left to...
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
Source: Sunset...
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the...
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as...
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Source: In
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral...
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated but for our...
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Source:...
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted...
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Source: In New York Times Book...
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it...
I have the worst, ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always, hear the woman in the back...
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Source: In...
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered...
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the...