Everything – Page 197 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 242016
 

List, and the world lists with you; abstract, and you abstract alone.

Jun 232016
 

Your most reliable and attentive readers are the people who hate you.

Jun 222016
 

You can talk a man out of an idea he is happy with only by making him unhappy with it.

Jun 212016
 

To make, not the case that convinces me, but the one that I think will convince you, is not bad faith but good manners.

Jun 202016
 

The truth shall set you on anyone who will listen.

Jun 172016
 

It is not easy for a woman to win an author’s heart; she has to read his books.

Jun 162016
 

At least you can deal with the devil; God just pushes everyone around.

Jun 152016
 

Celebrated mediocrity augurs obscure excellence.