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 There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.  Leisure time is when your wife can't find you To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope? Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word. Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible. To be somebody you must last. Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done. A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish. When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist. . . faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state. When I saw something that needed doing, I did it. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. A rag and a bone and a hank of hair. We've reached an age that when construction workers stare at us it's because they figure we might be considering a remodeling job. 
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