H. L. Mencken Quotes
The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances-of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
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Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.
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You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.
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The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances-of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.
