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'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Money: power at its most liquid.
The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.
I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.
When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.
A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.
The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.
As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.
Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.
Most people find just being themselves not enough of a show.
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
After desolation, grief brings back our humanity
Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
Cynicism has its own zealots.
Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.
The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.
I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.
Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.
The only peace is being out of earshot.
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.
The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.
No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.
With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.
Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.
Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.
Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.
Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.
More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
The familiar changes as we cling to it.
Folly always knows the answer.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.
Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Never ask a bore a question.
Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.
Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.
With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.
Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.
Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!
Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.
Winning means outlasting everyone else.
Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.
Constant talkers are unheard.
The idealist regards facts as provisional.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.
The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.
The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.
Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.
Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
Never try to leap from a standstill.
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.
An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.
Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.
Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.
I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
To make a thought my own, I must think it often.
Money is a better tonic than Geritol.
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
