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Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.
Я ЖЕРТВА ЦЕПИ НЕСЧАСТНЫХ СЛУЧАЙНОСТЕЙ, КАК И ВСЕ МЫ.
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a hom...
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.
I spoke one time at the Library of Congress, in 1972, or so. A man stood up in the middle of the audience, when I was about halfway through, and he said, What right have you, as leader of America's yo...
People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might be civilized after all.
Other people say, Hello or Goodbye! We always say, Excuse me, no matter what we’re doing.’ He threw up his hands. ‘No more apologies! So we’re poor! All right, we’re poor! This is America! And America...
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.
War is now a form of TV entertainment
Truly great poems never do, somehow.
Him! Him! Captain Eliot Rosewater–Silver Star, Bronze Star, Soldier's Medal, and Purple Heart with Cluster! Sailing champion! Ski champion! Him! Him! My God–the number of times life has said, 'Yes, ye...
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
Lucky me , Lucky mud
It was a perfectly good word – until Eliot got hold of it. It’s spoiled for me now. Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did to the word democracy. If Eliot is going to love everybody, no matt...
Is Doctor Proteus on? said Kroner’s secretary. Doctor Kroner is in. Just a moment, said Katharine. Doctor Proteus, Doctor Kroner is in and will speak to you. All right, I’m on. Doctor Proteus is on th...
I can only reply that the secret to success in every human endeavor is total concentration. Ask any great athlete.
I thought that was pretty good. So then I disturbed my father at his typewriter, and asked him what my heritage was from his side of the family. I didn’t know then what sperm was, and so wouldn’t unde...
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.