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Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes part of the ceremony.
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.
A real job is a job you hate.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not — there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, ‘soul.’ I don’t believe in an afterlife or heaven or hell, yet there isn’t a secular word for that feeling that we are not only flesh and blood. Whether you’re religious or not you may find yourself obliged to use language shaped by religion.
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She’s high on her own fumes.
I love elitism. That’s why I wrote about these very elitist seventeenth-century Jesus freaks. I’m talking about the Puritans. The thing that’s great about them is their love of knowledge and language and words and learning. They’re building their little cabins and then they get cracking building Harvard because they want their sons to know Hebrew and Greek and Latin and to have read Aristotle and they want those people to be in charge of them, the people who know stuff.
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
