"Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!"

-- Lionel Trilling

#Life Quotes #Notebook Quotes #Hate Quotes

“One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.”
“I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.”
“How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.”
“I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.”
“If the Holocaust that you talk about was real, why don't you allow the subject to be studied? One can freely research any issue, except for this issue, which is sealed. It is a black box, which they do not allow to be opened or reexamined. They do this in order to exploit it.”
“When the term machine gun enters common parlance, the word machine becomes much more sinister.”
“I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.”
“I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.”

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