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The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me
I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
The ideal companion in bed is a good book.
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.
The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.
Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.
One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.
No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously.
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way
We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.
After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.
The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.
I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.
Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.
A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.
Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.
All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.
The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.
When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
