I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
Paul Ambroise Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
Bill Vaughan
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
Gore Vidal
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.
Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
American Indian Proverb
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Never give advice in a crowd.
Arabic Proverb
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.
None but a mule denies his family.
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
A friend is known when needed.
Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.
Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.
Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.
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