“I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 44 of 303
“You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.”
“Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.”
“We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.”
“You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.”
“It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.”
“We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.”
“In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.”
“It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.”
“Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.”
“It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.”
“Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.”
“Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.”
“I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.”
“We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.”
“Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.”
“For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.”
““Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.””
“You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.”
“The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.”