All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us
We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
No hero is immortal till he dies.
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
No good opera plot can be sensible... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
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