“The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 100 of 303
“I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.”
“One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.”
“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”
“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.”
“It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.”
“If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.”
“One's ignorance is one's chief asset.”
“I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.”
“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”
“I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend of mine. But he knows markets, he knows corporations' work, he knows money, and he's got the interests of the country at heart.”
“A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.”
“In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.”
“Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.”
“The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.”
“Season your admiration for a while.”
“What a piece of work is a man”
“Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.”
“More matter with less art.”
“What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.”