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"Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere."
"Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does."
"It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation."
"if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?"
"I really like Thanksgiving turkey... it does not take only time in Houston that you look at natural breasts."
"The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts."
"...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself."
"A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt."
"He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts."
"And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper."
"My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that."
"The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance."
"Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default."
"Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil."
"Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot."
"The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot, are traders, both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved."
"I'm a pretty happy dude, and don't let much get to me. If something does, I don't like to hold onto it."
"But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve."
"Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next."
"One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized"
