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There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. Oscar Wilde
Isaac Babel quote: "No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in..."
No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place. Isaac Babel
If the recently graduated college alumna can't turn her trained brain to some intelligent awareness of our responsibilities in World Affairs, we're going to foul up our leadership like England did, as sure as God made little green apples. Elaine Dundy
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That..."
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. Rainer Maria Rilke
in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality. Herman Melville
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate! Ivan Turgenev
Bertrand Russell quote: "Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person,..."
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. Bertrand Russell
Samuel Johnson quote: "[A]ngling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a..."
[A]ngling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. Samuel Johnson
whiskey makes the heart beat fasterbut it sure doesn't help themind and isn't it funny how you can ache justfrom the deadly drone ofexistence? Charles Bukowski
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end. Joyce Carol Oates
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland Saddam Hussein
Bob Dylan quote: "She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's..."
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all. Bob Dylan
Arthur Golden quote: "This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder..."
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely. Arthur Golden
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language. Philip K. Dick

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