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I often think it's comical how nature always does contrive that every boy and every gal, that's born into the world alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative!  (Wa Quotes) A wandering minstrel I, a thing of shreds and patches, of ballads, songs, and snatches, and dreamy lullaby!  (Wa Quotes) No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know  (Wa Quotes) In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind - he found it less exciting  (Wa Quotes) From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked  (Wa Quotes) It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture  (Wa Quotes) If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life  (Wa Quotes) My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful  (Wa Quotes) To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus  (Wa Quotes) War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero. It takes courage to sit down and be counted  (Wa Quotes) I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can't be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary.... I forget the third thing  (Wa Quotes) Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course  (Wa Quotes) I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. Betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical  (Wa Quotes) The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say  (Wa Quotes) We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered  (Wa Quotes) If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on  (Wa Quotes) We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation  (Wa Quotes) During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man  (Wa Quotes) War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known  (Wa Quotes) As first a man cannot lay down the right of resisting them, that assault him by force, to take away his life; because he cannot be understood to aim thereby, at any good to himself  (Wa Quotes) When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death  (Wa Quotes) Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter  (Wa Quotes) During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man  (Wa Quotes) For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect  (Wa Quotes) If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward  (Wa Quotes) The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday  (Wa Quotes) The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened Earth radiates disaster triumphant  (Wa Quotes) I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science  (Wa Quotes) I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming  (Wa Quotes) It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years  (Wa Quotes)
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