My father was often angry when I was most like him. |
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. |
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. |
People change and forget to tell each other. |
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? |
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? |
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? |
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. |
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits |
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. |
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. |
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. |
You lose your manners when you are poor |