The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged concentration upon it, while the politician emphasizes the impersonal aspect of life by his attempts to fit men into groups.
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,...
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Jane Austen
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.
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Karl Pilkington
I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
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C. Joybell C.
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
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Peter Ustinov
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to...
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David Sedaris
More Quotes By Richard Wright
If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that...
Maybe man is nothing in particular, ' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams that it is true; but at the same time...
If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
You can't make me do nothing but die!
We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.
