There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
Civilization begins with distillation
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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