“A marriage fairytale : she doesn't want to and he can't.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
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“I got married. I could happen to anyone.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“It is a small world. I saw my husband three times in the living room today.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
Source: A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms
Source: The New Land
“Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
“An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.”
Source: The Journals: Volume 1: 1949-1965
Source: Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
“Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.”
“Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.”
Source: A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
Source: Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction
Source: Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
“Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.”
“An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.”
“The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.”
“The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.”
“A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.”
“To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.”
“The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.”
“Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.”
“The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.”
“The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.”
“An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.”
“The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.”