A Quotes
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“All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.”
Source: The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961
“All men are forever alone, but they don't want to be. They're always searching, trying to make contact, trying to reach others across the void. Some people never succeed, some break through occasionally. Lya and I were lucky. But it's never permanent. In the
end you're alone again, back on the darkling plain.”
Source: A Song for Lya
“All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.”
“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”
“All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.”
“All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.”
“All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.”
Source: At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament
“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are poor or rich.”
Source: How to Cook a Wolf
“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.”
“All men are ignorant, just in different fields.”
“All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.”
“All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“All men are innocent until darkness comes.”
“All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.”
“All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“All men are into bondage, 'specially if they're real assholes at work all day.”
Source: The Llama Parlour
“All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.”
Source: Glasshouse
“All men are Jews, though few men know it.”
“All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
“All men are liars. All women are liars, too. I learned that fact when I was two years old and my grandmother told me that if I was a good girl and sat still, the shot the doctor was about to give me wouldn’t hurt. It was the first time my young brain connected the unsettling feeling of my magic talent detecting a lie to the actions of other people.
People lie for many reasons: to save themselves, to get out of trouble, to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. Manipulators lie to get what they want. Narcissists lie to make themselves seem grand to others and themselves. Recovering alcoholics lie to safeguard their tattered reputations. And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible.”
Source: Burn for Me
“All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“All men are liars. All women are liars, too.”
Source: Burn for Me: A Hidden Legacy Novel
“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”
Source: Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings
“All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.”
“All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.”
Source: Dracula
“All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.”
Source: Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition
“All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.”
Source: Meditations (Diversion Classics)
“All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.”
“All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.”
Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
“All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.”
Source: Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr
“All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.”
“All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in terms of "color" creed, race or national origin.”
“All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.”
Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
“All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.”
“All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.”
“All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.”
“All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together.”
Source: Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.
“All men are potential rapists.”
“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
“All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”
“All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.”
Source: The Women's Room
“All men are rapists and that's all they are”
“All men are rapists, as much as all women are shallow sluts.”
“All men are ready to do the impossible when their ideals are threatened. But when a new ideal is announced—a new demand for growth, unsettling and perhaps dangerous—everyone cowers.
When the transformations of the Earth's crust cast aquatic animals onto land and terrestrial animals into the sea, it was the specimens open to any destiny who faced the new and unheard-of, and were able to save their species through new adaptations.”
Source: Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“All men are ‘real men’, whether they wear KingGees or a pink tutu.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women