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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ~Norman Mailer


I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it. ~Joe Mullally


Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators. ~George Orwell


Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost


Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ~Don Marquis


No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ~Henry Adams


Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. ~Russell B. Long


There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968


Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. ~Mark Twain


Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ~John Ruskin Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. ~Ambrose Bierce


There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith


Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith


As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown


The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


God enters by a private door into each individual. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep. ~Richard Shelton