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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand, a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods, or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do anything. I think the trouble with a lot of people is that they work too hard at staying married. They make a business out of it. When you work too hard at a business you get tired; and when you get tired you get grouchy; and when you get grouchy you start fighting; and when you start fighting you're out of business.
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.
A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
