I’m a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.
I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones—by faith alone. It strikes me a...
Jill tried to reswallow her stomach.
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So...
My only regret involved the sad knowledge that I could not handle the amount of alcohol I would have enjoyed. Easy is the descent into Hell.
Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one.
No one ever does anything but what he wants to do—'enjoys'—within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded.
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
Or maybe he was seeing double. Bad stuff, gin. Should ‘ave switched to rum a long time ago. Good stuff, rum. You could drink it, or take a bath in it. No, that was gin — he meant Joe.
Pay it forward.
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
She might get high enough to crash—no higher.
Smith felt distressed at the failure to respond in kind and interpreted it as failure on his own part. He realized miserably that, time after time, he had managed to bring agitation to these other cre...
Son, quite aside from my own conditioned reflex against munching a roast haunch of—well, you, for example—quite aside from that trained-in emotional prejudice, for coldly practical reasons I regard ou...
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.
That old saw about To understand all is to forgive all is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them. My
The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever . . . I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed.
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