“ Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future wo… Christopher Hitchens
“ The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p Robert Hughes
“ To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionat… Thomas Hardy
“ Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. T.H. White
“ [O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' W… Christopher Hitchens
“ It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are… James Baldwin
“ People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice DaShanne Stokes
“ The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you. Shannon L. Alder
“ Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence. Jack Weatherford
“ That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt. Wally Lamb
“ One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as… James Carlos Blake
“ The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still. Robert Ludlum
“ The constant, obvious flattery, contrary to all evidence, of the people around him [Tsar Nicholas I] had brought him to the point that he no longer saw his contradictions, no longer conformed his acti… Leo Tolstoy
“ Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are. Alain de Botton
