Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.
Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.
Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.
Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.
Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.
Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.
Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.
We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.
Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.
As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.
An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
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