“I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?”
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“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
“Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.”
“Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!”
“Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.”
“So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.”
“In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.”
“He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?”
“Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.”
“The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War.”
“She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”
“Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.”
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
“Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers”
“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”
“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.”
“An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.”
“I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?”
“Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.”