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I have read your book and much like it. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas. Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.) A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants. Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. God is love, but get it in writing. I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God. Behind every great fortune there is a crime. A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money. Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. Every law is an infraction of liberty. When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world. What luck for rulers that men do not think. It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad. The only paradise is paradise lost. Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. It is most unwise for people in love to marry. Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink. Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I married beneath me - all women do. The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Imitation is the sincerest form of television. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise. Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. This poem will never reach its destination. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. |
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