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- Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white…
- Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
- At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,…
- I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone…
- I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and…
- So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you,…
- The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all…
- The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and…
- If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to…
- It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and…
- Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a…
- She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he…
- I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
- When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding…
- a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble…
- He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word…
- A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the…
- It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
- Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
- A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
- You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have…
- One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray…
- ...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to…
- No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means…
- When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle