"Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage."
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"All philosophy is a form of confession."
"No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule."
"How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank."
"Creative work carries with it a form of intense love."
"Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form."
"If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated."
"Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!"
"Headline writing is an art form."
"The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself."
"Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]"
"Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?"
"Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms."
"But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command."
"Every form correctly seen is beautiful"
"To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same."
"Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous."
"What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?"
"Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence."
"I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy."