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- Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.
- One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things…
- A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way…
- Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
- When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
- Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist…
- There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether…
- I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book…
- In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned…
- There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will…
- There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.
- So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense…
- In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
- Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether…
- I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a…
- My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously,…
- The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt:…
- The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
- We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174
- Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle