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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
Forgotten is forgiven.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.