Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.
You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.
The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.
Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.
Death strips all men of dignity.
Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!
we're not all the same. A common liberal refrain. . . is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don't see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That's liberal logic for you.
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.