The Last Word

Friday, October 7, 2005

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
—Daphne du Maurier

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
—Fran Lebowitz

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
—Franklin P. Adams

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
—Sir Winston Churchill

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
—Al Capone

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
—J. Paul Getty

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
—John Lehman

The world breaks everyone and afterward are many strong in the broken places. But those that it cannot break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.
—Ernest Hemingway

Woe be to him that reads but one book.
—George Herbert

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
—Oscar Wilde

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
—Bert Leston Taylor

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
—Ovid

Idealism is what proceeds experience; cynicism is what follows.
—David T. Wolf

Equal opportunity means that everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
—Laurence J. Peter

In the long run, we are all dead.
—John Maynard Keynes

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
—Michael Friedman

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
—John Blake

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
—Joan Didion

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
—The Rev. Edward A. Malloy

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
—Adrienne E. Gusoff

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi, May 1940

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
—Michel de Montaigne

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
—Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Our greatest battles are those with our own minds.
—Jameson Frank

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
—Dick Cavett

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
—John Cage

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