H. L. Mencken Quotes
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
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As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.
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The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.
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Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
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More matter with less art.
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What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.
