Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.
It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.
I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to...
It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer's billiard table.
A time before Flanders and Auschwitz had shown that, given the means of killing and the opportunity to use them, the species, far from being a pinnacle in creation, was actually lower on the scale...
Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek.
STRAUSS: Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE: I did decide to write about what I experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered...
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
SPACES... BREAKS...TO CONTEMPLATE THINGS... TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT...
No use, no use!' said the King. 'She runs so fearfully quick. You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch! But I'll make a memorandum about her, if you like-she's a dear good creature,' he repeated...
In your diary, you quote Dziko’s statement - something about ignorance, like ignorance brings people closer closer than anything else, or did I just dream? In general, I thought a lot about this,...
You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.
I was always lonely and I am lonely still.
Perhaps, perhaps this would be the one to pull me out of my plunge.
The lesson was not yet clear in the 18th century, as America was to learn to her cost in our own century, that the presence of disunity in the military about method and strategy, and among the...
There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, when you think of how their hairstyles changed and their music changed. Some bands now go seven...
There's more to her, I know there is. I saw it in her eyes when she laughed with me in the Jeep. Felt it in her touch as we danced.
Under orders from Kitchener himself, an attempt was to be made to bribe the Turkish commander of the Kut siege into letting Townshend's army go in return for one million English pounds' worth of gold....
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.But it keeps not ending.So far, so good.
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be...
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you...
Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but...
If this world were an infinite plan and sailing to the East we could always reach new distances and discover sweeter and newer things than all the cyclades or the islands of King Solomon, then the...
This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another-and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment...
Thirty thousand years ago; when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could...
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.
Why do tyrants understand the dangers of a democratic imagination more than our policy makers appreciate its necessity?
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian...
I am something of a connoisseur of the country pile and I must say {he} had done himself remarkably well. At a guess I would say it was from the reign of Queen Anne and had been bunged up by some...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
