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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life...
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[Officer standing on a mountain crest:] Beautiful view. Is there one for the enlisted men?
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[One soldier to another aiming a gun at a mouse:] Aim between the eyes, Joe. Sometimes they charge when they're wounded.
Source: Willie & Joe: Overseas, 1943-1945, p. 123 -
[Speaking of Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner:] The two of them deserve each other. One's a born liar, the other's convicted.
Source: New York Times, 24 July 1978 -
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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A politician is one that would circumvent God.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
Source: Epigrams (1911) p.356
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