He'd tried to strike up a conversation with her.

I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again all in one lifetime.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices electric light and water closets and nothing else.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement, then it becomes a mistress and then it becomes a master and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

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