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The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality ...

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

Performance is an act of faith.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained ...

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.