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  • . . . you may think I waste my breath
    Pretending that there can be passion
    That has more... More
  • ... Her blood in one army and her love in the other. More
  • ... if there are no waving flags and marching songs at the barricades as Walter marches out with... More
  • ... our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months... More
  • ... that darkling brightness which falls from the stars. More
  • ... your problem is your role models were models. More
  • A barnacle goose
    Far up in the stretches of night; night splits and the dawn breaks... More
  • A beggar said, “They get the most
    Whom man or devil cannot tire,
    And what could make... More
  • A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is... More
  • A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. More
  • A chaste woman ought not to die her hair yellow. More
  • A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one... More
  • A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else. More
  • A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated. More
  • A country where every citizen is free to suppress liberty. More
  • A crazy man that found a cup,
    When all but dead of thirst,
    Hardly dared to wet his... More
  • A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to... More
  • A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one... More
  • A Druid land, a Druid tune! More
  • A drunkard is a dead man
    And all dead men are drunk. More
  • A fact is like a sack—it won’t stand up if it’s empty. To make it stand up, first you have... More
  • A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back... More
  • A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other. More
  • A God all mercy is a God unjust. More
  • A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. More
  • A good many have been thrown out on their broad capital bases. More
  • A good person will feel guilty even before a dog. More
  • A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t... More
  • A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. More
  • A great artist is a great man in a great child. More
  • A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of... More
  • A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of... More
  • A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings. More
  • A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted... More
  • A kiss may ruin a human life. More
  • A lady with soft eyes like funeral tapers,
    And face that seemed wrought out of moonlit... More
  • A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer,... More
  • A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent... More
  • A line will take us hours maybe;
    Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
    Our... More
  • A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. More
  • A little way within the gloom a roebuck raised his eyes
    Brimful of starlight, and he said:... More
  • A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep... More
  • A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. More
  • A man I praise that once in Tara’s Halls
    Said to the woman on his knees, “Lie... More
  • A man in his own secret meditation
    Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made
    In art or... More
  • A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often... More
  • A man of great common sense and good taste—meaning thereby a man without originality or moral... More
  • A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. More
  • A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the... More
  • A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. More
  • A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man. More
  • A man who has no office to go to—I don’t care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no... More
  • A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country... More
  • A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain. More
  • A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. More
  • A man’s got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. More
  • A man’s interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a... More
  • A man’s very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats... More
  • A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out... More
  • A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of... More
  • A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little. More
  • A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they... More
  • A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world—the beauty of speed. More
  • A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. More
  • A passion-driven exultant man sings out
    Sentences that he has never thought.... More
  • A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. More
  • A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life. More
  • A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people’s toes. More
  • a place in the world’s core,
    Where passion grows to be a changeless thing,
    Like... More
  • A poet can survive everything but a misprint. More
  • A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A... More
  • A reaction: a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from... More
  • A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you... More
  • A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and... More
  • A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state... More
  • A speckled cat and a tame hare
    Eat at my hearthstone
    And sleep there;
    And both look... More
  • A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well:... More
  • A statesman is an easy man,
    He tells his lies by rote;
    A journalist makes up his... More
  • A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
    Upon the Norman upland or... More
  • A sweetheart from another life floats there
    As though she had been forced to linger
    From... More
  • A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp... More
  • A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. More
  • A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy... More
  • A tragedy need not have blood and death: It’s enough ... that it all be filled with that... More
  • A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the... More
  • A tree there is that from its topmost bough
    Is half all glittering flame and half all... More
  • A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. More
  • A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. More
  • A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who... More
  • A veteran journalist ... has never had time to think twice before he writes. More
  • A war between Europeans is a civil war. More
  • A woman’s beauty is a storm-tossed banner;
    Under it wisdom stands, and I alone
    Of all... More
  • A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. More
  • Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should... More
  • Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. More
  • Accursed who brings to light of day
    The writings I have cast away. More
  • Acquaintance; companion;
    One dear brilliant woman;
    The best-endowed, the elect,
    All... More
  • After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. More
  • After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. More
  • After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. More
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