12-08-2007, 03:41 AM
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"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." ------------------------- "He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes." ------------------------- "Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority." ------------------------- "I hate women because they always know where things are." ------------------------- "I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick.' It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." ------------------------- "I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness." ------------------------- "It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy." ------------------------- "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." ------------------------- "Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation." ------------------------- "The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel." |
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12-09-2007, 04:23 AM
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". . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign words." ------------------------- "Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower." ------------------------- "If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold." ------------------------- "Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." ------------------------- "Such joy ambition finds." ------------------------- "But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last To basest things." ------------------------- "If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want." ------------------------- "In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora." ------------------------- "Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names." 
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12-09-2007, 11:37 PM
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Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.
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12-10-2007, 10:44 PM
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"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day." ------------------------- "A wounded deer leaps the highest." ------------------------- "After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs." ------------------------- "Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat." ------------------------- "Beauty is not caused. It is." ------------------------- "Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes" ------------------------- "Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent." ------------------------- "Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?" ------------------------- "Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate." ------------------------- "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." ------------------------- "Finite to fail, but infinite to venture." ------------------------- "For Love is Immortality."
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12-11-2007, 12:10 PM
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"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." ------------------------- "Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press." ------------------------- "I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever." ------------------------- "I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either." ------------------------- "I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory." ------------------------- "If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?" ------------------------- "It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones." |
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12-12-2007, 03:53 AM
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It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.
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12-12-2007, 01:52 PM
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"Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels." ------------------------- "Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent." ------------------------- "Here's to the confusion of our enemies!" ------------------------- "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." ------------------------- "When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out." ------------------------- "May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine." ------------------------- "Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear." ------------------------- "The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth." ------------------------- "The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but 'playing' the voice like those instrumentalists." |
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