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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. ”
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. ”
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. ”
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. ”
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task. ”
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. ”
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. ”
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ”
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play. ”
I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind. ”