• Thought and Reason

  An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

  3.0 · 9 votes · 32 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

  3.2 · 19 votes · 39 reads

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• Various

  Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

  3.6 · 61 votes · 86 reads

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• Art and Culture

  At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

  3.5 · 54 votes · 12 reads

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• Feelings

  Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

  3.3 · 55 votes · 195 reads

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• Time

  Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

  3.8 · 37 votes · 4 reads

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• Feelings

  Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

  4.0 · 22 votes · 150 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

  3.3 · 45 votes · 39 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

  3.8 · 58 votes · 17 reads

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• Society

  However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

  3.9 · 43 votes · 54 reads

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• Nature

  I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability

  3.0 · 45 votes · 50 reads

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• Various

  In order to win, you must expect to win.

  3.3 · 17 votes · 64 reads

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• Art and Culture

  It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

  3.8 · 17 votes · 111 reads

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• Art and Culture

  It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.

  3.0 · 34 votes · 97 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

  3.0 · 28 votes · 63 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

  3.2 · 48 votes · 72 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

  3.4 · 20 votes · 22 reads

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• Society

  Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

  4.0 · 52 votes · 140 reads

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• Feelings

  Real love stories never have endings.

  3.6 · 14 votes · 77 reads

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• Art and Culture

  So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it?

  5.0 · 61 votes · 153 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

  4.8 · 15 votes · 118 reads

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• Society

  Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

  5.0 · 51 votes · 90 reads

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• Feelings

  The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

  4.0 · 52 votes · 0 reads

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• Countries

  The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an A

  4.5 · 9 votes · 167 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

  5.0 · 8 votes · 137 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

  3.3 · 9 votes · 197 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than cre

  4.7 · 16 votes · 136 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

  3.0 · 28 votes · 196 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The more you reason the less you create.

  4.5 · 58 votes · 174 reads

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• Society

  The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

  3.4 · 48 votes · 79 reads

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• Virtues

  The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ''I've got responsibilities.''

  3.6 · 52 votes · 25 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure whic

  4.5 · 42 votes · 174 reads

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• Nature

  What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

  4.1 · 62 votes · 99 reads

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• Art and Culture

  When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of

  3.6 · 9 votes · 111 reads

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• Nature

  Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

  4.7 · 32 votes · 38 reads

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• Art and Culture

  You teach best what you most need to learn.

  4.8 · 20 votes · 70 reads

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• Feelings

  Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  4.2 · 38 votes · 196 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

  4.2 · 18 votes · 7 reads

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• Nature

  Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  4.6 · 45 votes · 191 reads

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