"If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom."

-- Cyril Connolly

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“I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.”
“I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!”
“I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.”
“I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.”

Source : "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.
“When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.”
“A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.”
“No taxation without respiration.”
“Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.”

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