Archives - January 2001
January 1, 2001
All that I have written seems to me like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me.
January 2, 2001
The Soul should always stand ajar.
January 3, 2001
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, they send forward a ripple of hope.
January 4, 2001
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
January 5, 2001
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
January 6, 2001
He who would write and can't write can surely review.
January 7, 2001
Letters...have souls.
January 8, 2001
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
January 9, 2001
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
January 10, 2001
In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity, is a vital thing.
January 11, 2001
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
January 12, 2001
A willfully ignorant person is a corrupt government's best slave.
January 13, 2001
Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.
January 14, 2001
I am part of all that I have met.
January 15, 2001
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
January 16, 2001
The hearts that never lean, must fall.
January 17, 2001
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
January 18, 2001
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
January 19, 2001
Democracies are most commonly corrupted by the insolence of demagogues.
January 20, 2001
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
January 21, 2001
Birth is the start / of loneliness / & loneliness the start / of poetry.
January 22, 2001
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
January 23, 2001
Ignorance is the mother of presumption.
January 24, 2001
Necessity does the work of courage.
January 25, 2001
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
January 26, 2001
Who profits from all this writing activity? The manufacturers of the typewriters and typing paper, of course. And the U.S. Post Office.
January 27, 2001
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I love.
January 28, 2001
Racism is used both to create false differences among us and to mask very significant ones.
January 29, 2001
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
January 30, 2001
In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
January 31, 2001
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
