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When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective. ”
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ”
You read some columnists in the newspapers; you have to wonder who they are really working for. You can see they have an agenda. ”
Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that. ”
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ”
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ”
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. ”
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ”
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ”
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ”