Conquered people tend to be witty.
From Saul Bellow
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
A man is only as good as what he loves.
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
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