"If mankind is naturally good, he is sure……" — Herbert Gold
"If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us."
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Herbert Gold
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15 Quotes by Herbert Gold
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He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves,…
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The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in…
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The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
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Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
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Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun…
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The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great…
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Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.
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The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood…
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Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
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To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love,…
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Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have…
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