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Life is painful, nasty and short . . . in my case it has only been painful and nasty. More about this quote
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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes...
Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...
II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a...
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.Source: The Odd...
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. More about this quote
It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the...
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.Source: In...
. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the...
I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. More about this quote
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.Source: Quoted by...
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.Source: Quoted in:...
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from...
The past lived in songs, the present in their flashing swords,and the future in their...
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.Source: Mary Crawford, in...
You can't test courage cautiously.Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. More about this quote
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not...
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