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A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.
Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.