I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, Th...
There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.
Acting per se, like all art, is a process of abstracting, of retaining only significant detail. But in impersonation any detail can be significant.
Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.
Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah!
I hope he’s just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel.
My child, a true-confession story should never be tarnished by any taint of truth.
The Colorado River was at a record low and the towers in Lake Mead stood high out of the water. But the Angelenos committed communal suicide by watering lawns as usual.
I pity the poverty of your wealth.
That was smart, that was engineering: never reinvent something that you can buy down the street.
The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.
Till the stars grow old and our sun grows cold? Will you fight for us, lie for us, love us - and let us love you?
I’ve never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has...
Still rarer is the man who thinks habitually, who applies reason, rather than habit pattern, to all his activity. Unless he masques himself, his is a dangerous life; he is regarded as queer, untrustwo...
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incomp...
الطيبة وحدها لا تكفي. لا بد من حكمة باردة قاسية للطيبة كي تحقق الخير. الطيبة بلا حكمة تؤدي حتما إلى الشر.
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
To the everlasting glory of the Infantry—
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