“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 137 of 303
“As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path; I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.”
“You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'”
“The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.”
“Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.”
“I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.”
“[In relationships with a directors] I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.”
“Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect”
“the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.”
“I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.”
“I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”
“I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection.”
“Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
“Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.”
“In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.”
“The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.”
“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.”
“He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.”
“Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.”
“It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.”