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God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.
Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.
Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either.
Couples who come to understand one another often part.
Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.
Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.
Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.
Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.
The best hand always believes in playing by the rules.
Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.
Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.
Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.
I am only interested in money because everyone else is.
If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.
Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.
The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.
Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.
Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.
Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.
The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.
Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.
Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.
Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.
I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.
I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.
The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.
I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.
Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.