Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn’t. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still, you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.
~ Mickey Spillane
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Category Archives: 0459 – Quote Unquote
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
~ George Santayana
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must also be frauds- is a necessary corollary.
~ Janet Malcolm
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America’s old republic was born of rebellion against Britain’s more ancient monarchy. Yet, by strange fate, the passage of time has only joined America and Britain more closely together in war and peace.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
~ Henry James
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.
~ Rollo May
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