Everything – Page 146 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 152018
 

No prejudice is worth having unless one regards it, at least privately, as a mature, objective judgment.

Jun 142018
 

To the problem of different opinions political science offers two solutions, idealism and realism. Idealism: different opinions should not exist. Realism: different opinions do not exist.

Jun 132018
 

Iron Law of Movie Romance: If there are kids, they always decide whom the parent will marry.

Jun 122018
 

The only known cure for More for Some is Less for All.

Jun 072018
 

The first rung on the ladder of literacy is pedantry, or as we now say, fact-checking.

Jun 062018
 

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
DIVERSITY BRINGS US TOGETHER

Jun 052018
 

More and more authors have begun to stress the importance of being kind and generous in one’s writing. If this catches on I’m sunk.

Jun 042018
 

Writers are sometimes described as dissipating their books in talk, as though speaking your thoughts bars you from writing them down.