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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day’s progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
We are most alive when we’re in love.
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.