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"Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?"
"I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken."
"One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture."
"The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert."
"Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character."
"San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell."
"There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest."
"Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved."
"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
"Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts."
"Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter."
"We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free."
"To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine."
"I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us."
"A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye."
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin."
"I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties."
"Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us."
"Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government."
"A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory."
