“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo
@edgarblythe,
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."
Aldous Huxley.
@spendius,
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead
@tsarstepan,
“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy,
“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
― George Bernard Shaw
"A thing is not necessarily a lie just because it is not necessarily true."
-- John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday
@Lustig Andrei,
No wonder I never gave Steinbeck the time of day.
@spendius,
No, it's because he's a very fine writer and that's something your Victorian limitations could not possibly understand or appreciate.
@Lustig Andrei,
I'll close GITMO in 100 days. That was not necessarily true but it was a lie.
@Lustig Andrei,
"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."
John Steinbeck
“I think the secret to a happy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.”
― Richard Paul Evans,
“The sadness in your heart is a yesterday you can no longer see, so put it behind you and walk always forward.
― Catherine Anderson
"The Super Bowl this year will be played in Governor Chris Christie's home state of New Jersey. It's a state that lately has gotten used to 300-pound guys blocking things." -Conan O'Brien
Today is his birthday.
“Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words.”
― James Joyce
“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee
