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- Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
- The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
- This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass…
- Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
- The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
- He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy,…
- there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes…
- What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . .…
- The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;…
- You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
- Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's…
- In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots…
- Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and…
- The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed…
- Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.
- Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
- I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.
- It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and…
- One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
- Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my…
- God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.
- Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov