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Are we a dream in the mind of a deity, or is each of us a separate dreamer, evoking his own reality?
Julian (1964)
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)
Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
Julian (1964)
I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
Two Sisters: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel (1970)
Well, the Constitution has not yet been pregnant.
In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue.
Julian (1964)
It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society.
Screening History (1992)
Despite all evidence to the contrary I do not believe humans innately cruel, but they fear change of any kind.
Julian (1964)
The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.
Julian (1964)
Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995)
Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!
Julian (1964)
The folly of the clever is always more than that of the dull.
Julian (1964)
On the throne of the world, any delusion becomes fact.
Julian (1964)
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
A View from the Diner's Club (1991)
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
The Second American Revolution (1983)
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.
Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)