Ausgewählte Zitate der Amerikanischen Literatur
T.S. Eliot
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
April is the cruellest month.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative;
in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh
at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Action is character.
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess
and nicely dead again before you know it.
Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something.
He writes because he has something to say.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived
and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Never mistake motion for action.
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Edgar Allan Poe
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Be not simply good - be good for something.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Simplify, simplify.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Things do not change; we change.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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