We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."
Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.
Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.
If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
We are the hero of our own story.
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep.
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.
Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.
Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.
You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.
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