Anthony Boucher famous quotes

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  • When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  • The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

  • First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

  • It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic but acceptance was the key to my sobriety... If I didn't have acceptance at that time in my life I would not be standing here today.

  • Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.

  • The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

  • The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.

  • Chess will always be the master of us all.

  • It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

  • I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...