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2022-0929

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

Carl Sandburg
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.

Henry Miller
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.

George Dibbern
2021-0214

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

Henry Miller
2020-0305

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

George Orwell
2019-1015

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

Mary Norris
2019-0907

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

Thomas Fuller
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.

Mark Twain
2014-0521

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

Brian Eno
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.

Henry Miller
2014-0428

There are no born masters of typography.

Jan Tschichold
2014-0412

How to write a good short story:

Kurt Vonnegut
2013-1001

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

David Sedaris
2013-0417

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

Henry Miller

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