Saul Steinberg Quotes
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.
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I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
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People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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I'm uncomfortable with it. When I thought of playing baseball, I never thought of that. It was never important to me. I am a little tired of it, and I've had enough.
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Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast.
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Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
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I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.
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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
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Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.
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I think, therefore Descartes exists.
