Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority |
Conscience takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides. |
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest |
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals |
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear |
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear |
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear |
Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century |
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. |
Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow |
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart |
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. |
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories |
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. |
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded |