veritas quotations

is to whom the quite is commonly attributed to.

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:00:27 +0000

People would rather have one good, solid and honest emotion in making up their minds than a thousand facts.

is commonly attributed with saying this.

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:32:20 +0000

Just because your voice reaches around the world doesn’t mean you’re wiser than when it only reached the end of the bar.

on page 286 of his book, Mythic worlds, modern words.

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:30:27 +0000

[W]hen you go through life … it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme … Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, ‘Who wrote this novel? You did.’

writing malapropisms for his wife Jane (called Janeaceisms) for their radio comedy show.

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:07:01 +0000

Familiarity breeds attempt.

Time wounds all heels.

I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses.

We’re all cremated equal.

We’re insufferable friends.

I’ve been working my head to the bone.

in Catch-22.

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:06:53 +0000

Frankly, I’d like to see the government get ouf of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

- original source not yet found.

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:01:45 +0000

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them in fact, is bad acting.

in her novel, Miles Errant.

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:35:54 +0000

People do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives. The will to be stupid if a very powerful force - but there are always alternatives.

in episode 1.5 of Bored to Death “The Case of the Lonely Dove.”

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:12:53 +0000

I hope your heart is broken many times because it means you would have loved many times.

in one of his poems.

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:24:48 +0000

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But hating, my boy, is an art.

in one of his sermons.

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:21:37 +0000

This sad vicissitude of things.