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All general statements are false. Favorite color: I hate colors. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. Nobody wants justice. Lawers, I suppose, were children once. A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. The cynics are right nine times out of ten. The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable. As if there were safety in stupidity alone. The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet. Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. I epitomize America. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer. Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile. What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities. American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal. Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. The world is proof that God is a committee. How should they answer? We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi. If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No. Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were. God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation. Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. |
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