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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

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Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

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There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

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Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

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Humility is the mother of giants.

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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

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