When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.
There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.
I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.
Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?
. . . though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.
Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.
But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.