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2022-1020

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

2022-0929

NY (Sunday) Times, Aug 7, ’49, nobody opens, everybody sees, nobody cares, a newspaper not demonstrably stupid yet incorrigibly stodgy.

2022-0403

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2021-0613

Paradise is separated from hell only by an imaginary line, so it is said.

2021-0423

Again one sees the scramble for security at the cost of freedom. We are all chasing security, countries and individuals alike. But in these unsettled times what guarantees a man security? Certainly not money. No, one’s greatest security is to be loved. Banks fail, love never.

2021-0214

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

2020-0305

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

2019-1015

Please, could you expel, or, at least, restrain, the comma‐maniac, on your editorial staff?

2019-0907

If an ass goes traveling, he’ll not come back a horse.

2019-0907

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2017-1106

I often can’t tell if people are at peace or just being dull.

Charles Bukowski

2015-0212

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

Henry David Thoreau

2015-0104

You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

Hunter S. Thompson

2014-0531

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning‐bug and the lightning.

2014-0521

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

2014-0504

In his highest flights, musical and architectural above all, for they are one, man gives the illusion of rivaling the order, the majesty and the splendor of the heavens.

2014-0428

There are no born masters of typography.

2014-0412

How to write a good short story:

2013-1001

If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

2013-0417

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order that is not understood.

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