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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to.

Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude-it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

You are looking as fresh as paint.

All's fair in love and war.

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

Man is the cruelest animal.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Our best work is done when it needs to be.

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it – three minutes; to collect the data in it – all my life.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.

We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.