"I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his whole attack."

-- Stefan Heym

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“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.”
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.”

Source : Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.8, Random House
“Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.”
“Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.”

Source : Rae Foley (1976). “Put out the light”, Dodd Mead
“You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.”
“It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.”
“If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?”

Source : Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.225
“I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.”

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