Art is man determined to die sane.
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
Biography seemed to be no more than a high-spirited game of yanking out shirttails and setting fire to them.
Cheap liquor is grudge liquor.
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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