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Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility...
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It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.Source: In Interview in...
There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with...
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used...
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art...
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it...
Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.Source: The Fiery...
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you...
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As...
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.Source: In The Wit & Wisdom...
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body...
Eternity -- waste of time.Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.Source: Daniel Deronda, bk....
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?Source: Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 44,...
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of...
Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we...
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.Source: In The Ultimate...
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but...
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a...
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