All we have is today. Just live it. We don't know about tomorrow. So, enjoy the day. Love yourself, and spread love around.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore Vidal
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.
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they?
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.
A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
When danger approaches, sing to it.
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
Proverb
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