Everything – Page 83 – A book of aphorisms
Nov 122020
 

A few facts about an artist’s life can, if you’re not careful, spoil his work for good.

Nov 102020
 

Friends accumulate, like unmatched socks; enemies are chosen advisedly.

Nov 092020
 

The great trick of governance, as yet imperfectly mastered, is to loot without having to fight.

Nov 062020
 

The lower your class, the more time and humiliation it costs you to collect your dole.

Nov 042020
 

If one predicts disaster, it is difficult not to be disappointed when it fails to materialize.

Nov 032020
 

There are atheists in foxholes, but not pacifists.

Nov 022020
 

Your self does not lie in what you love, still less in what you hate; or what you think, still less in what you feel: it lies in what you say and do and nothing more.