"There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed."

Pound, Ezra on death
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"Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue."

Bierce, Ambrose on patience
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"Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled."

Butterworth, Eric on work   

"Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise."

Hoffer, Eric on exaggeration   

"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."

Camus, Albert on art   

"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu."

King, Florence on nostalgia   

"Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it."

Ramakrishna, Sri on preparation   

"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."

Michener, James A. on writers and writing   

"Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others."

Drew, Elizabeth on propaganda   

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"A distracted existence leads us to no goal."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on goals
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"No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees."

Wordsworth, William on death
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"Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

Frost, Robert on risk
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"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."

Johnson, Samuel on melancholy   

"Every dogma has its day."

Rotstein, Abraham on belief   

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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

Horace on adversity
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"I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious."

Whitman, Walt on love   

"Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?"

Dickinson, Emily on home   

"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."

Stamp, Sir Josiah on consequences
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"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on vulgarity
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"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."

Paz, Octavio on art   

"In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears."

Rourke, Constance on comedy and comedians   

"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say Gentlemen to the person with whom he is conversing."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on conversation   

"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."

Hoffer, Eric on dissipation   

"The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute."

Vico, Giambattista on nature   

"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."

Picasso, Pablo on miracles
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"It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty."

Jarry, Alfred on taste   

"History is the distillation of rumor."

Carlyle, Thomas on history and historians   

"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

Einstein, Albert on past
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"Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."

Wilde, Oscar on philanthropists   

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on youth   

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house."

Bible on evil
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"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

Voltaire on love
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"Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."

Waitley, Denis on health   

"Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone."

Dane, Frank on sin   

"Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- ."

Dickinson, Emily on dissent
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"Promote yourself but do not demote another."

Salanter, Israel on promotion   

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

Wilson, Edmund on income