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To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.
Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.
Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?
Most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.
Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.
The unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.
Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?
Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.
Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.
The true and the plausible are rarely the same.
Diamonds are the tears of the poor.
Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them ...
The old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
Money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.
Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.
Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.
The fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.
In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.
Fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.