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performance is an act of faith.
You cannot know what you do not feel.
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
The greatest miracle of all, the human being.
Infants are interesting only to their parents.
Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.
The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.