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- It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet…
- Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and…
- For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in…
- Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
- You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent…
- He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
- At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You…
- I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret…
- ...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them....…
- for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.
- I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them…
- It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our…
- Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna…
- George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches,…
- Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can…
- American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we…
- Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it…
- The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a…
- The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
- When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and…
- All of them had a restlessness in common.
- Maybe its like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster