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Always ask at the pub, Miss Jekyll. Elementary investigation - the pub always knows.

the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;

A man may despise himself for being as he is, but that does not absolve him of the responsibility for being as he is.

George Orwell once said that he wanted to turn political writing into an art:

The whiskey on your breathCould make a small boy dizzy;But I hung on like death:Such waltzing was not easy.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

This would be an outrageous cay man

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

Liberalism: for every complicated problem there exists both an intellectual and a moral solution and they coincide.

literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said about happy people.

Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction.

Ted What about Brett Fav... ruh

Ho there, scribe. I see that you write well enough. Can you also read?' 'Obviously you cannot, boy,' he replied. 'For if you were able to read, you would see that my sign' -he pointed to a piece of paper pinned to the wall above his head - 'says: Reading and Writing - Careful and Discreet- the Sinistro Scribe.

Was her guardian angel taking the day off? Had he quit the job completely?

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

In dying churches the last expenditures to be reduced are those that keep the members most comfortable.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

When life feels heavy, these two remedies relieve life's complexities: simplicity and purity. Simplicity seeks God. Purity enjoys him.

But if thou knowest that it shall be hurtful unto me, and not profitable for the health of my soul, take the desire away from me'! For not every desire is from the Holy Ghost, although it appear to a man right and good.

Despair is hope stark dead, presumption is hope stark mad.

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