“Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.”
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“Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.”
“No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.”
“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know”
“The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.”
“I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
“Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.”
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.”
“You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.”
“Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”
“Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.”
“Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.”
“Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.”
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
“It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.”
“Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.”