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When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it’s hard to go on pretending that you’re still dead (L D Quotes)
The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another (L D Quotes)
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with (L D Quotes)
The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad (L D Quotes)
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves (L D Quotes)
The idea that I’m a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them... Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there (L D Quotes)
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer (L D Quotes)
The concept of an independent spiritual realm does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human (L D Quotes)
There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with (L D Quotes)
I don’t agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I’ll deal with all the details after that (L D Quotes)
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? (L D Quotes)
There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion (L D Quotes)
Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant (L D Quotes)
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established (L D Quotes)
A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money (L D Quotes)
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time (L D Quotes)
Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness (L D Quotes)
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean (L D Quotes)
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who’d rather write a good story (L D Quotes)
One didn’t really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later (L D Quotes)
To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one’s country, to society, and to civilization itself (L D Quotes)
Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it (L D Quotes)
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature’s sustaining and poetic spirit (L D Quotes)
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire (L D Quotes)
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to (L D Quotes)
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born (L D Quotes)
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man (L D Quotes)
Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master (L D Quotes)
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second (L D Quotes)
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation (L D Quotes)