“Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 85 of 303
“Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on”
“Judge not unless you judge yourself”
“Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.”
“It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.”
“What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.”
“The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.”
“How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.”
“One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.”
“I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly beautiful, and there's nothing else said about her, it just doesn't hold a lot of interest for me.”
“I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.”
“My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.”
“When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.”
“You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people.”
“I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.”
“I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.”
“I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.”
“His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.”
“The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.”
“You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.”