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- A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn…
- It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.
- Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all…
- A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
- All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own…
- All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
- I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer…
- I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber…
- Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in…
- A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all…
- The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show…
- Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.
- Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of…
- The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while…
- The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a…
- We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
- The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
- The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
- All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather…
- After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman