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"Many persons think a prophet must be a good deal better than anybody else. Suppose I would condescend - yes, I will call it condescend, to be a great deal better than any of you. I would be raised to the highest heaven; and who should I have to accompany me?"
"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying."
"I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on."
"I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not."
"I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling."
"Sometimes the people you thought would be there forever somehow aren't."
"I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball."
"If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational."
"A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic."
"The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought."
"A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted."
"Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us."
"All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied."
"Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it."
"Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war."
"My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate."
"Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are."
"Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough."
"There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?"
"They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer."
