Civilization begins with distillation
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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 of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
History is not was, it is.
I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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