To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
Anita Brookner
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.
Garth Brooks
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Van Wyck Brooks
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
Joyce Brothers
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Broun
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.
What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
Maximus
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
Men are blind in their own cause.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
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