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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. Gore Vidal

Sorry Both Could Taken Road Were Branches Selves Multiple

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. Gore Vidal

Genius Andy Andy Warhol Only Known Warhol Ever

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. Gore Vidal

Democracy You Feeling Give Both Like Supposed Just Choice Aspirin

Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. Gore Vidal

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. Guillaume Apollinaire

Nature Weary Men Monotony Would Poets Soon Without Artists

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. Gustave Flaubert

Ignorance Stupidity Devil Nothing Immorality True Name His Legion Here

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert

Heart Varied Like Stomach Diet Wants

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. Gustave Flaubert

Beautiful Word Thought Faster More Sticks Effect

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour. H. P. Lovecraft

Alone Church Be True Christianity Benefit Bitter Possibly Would Propagation Only He True Merely Toward Masses Doctrines Forcible Knows Makes Were Conventional Cannot Them Asked View Help Agnostic Toleration Whom

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. H. P. Lovecraft

You Together People Strong Dark Crime Insanity Feelings Group Religious Deliberately Practical Bunch Perversion Expressed Chosen Guarantee

The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango. Hanya Yanagihara

First Out Restaurant Seek First Thing Fresh Go Selling Thailand Closest The First Thing Whenever Little Rice Stall Coconut Milk Served Thing

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Henry Fielding

Love Best Tea Scandal

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding

God You Money Will Devil Like Make Plague Your

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him. Henryk Sienkiewicz

Life Man Old Too Those Out Darker More Mysterious He Thus Come Perhaps Call Him Another Calls Still Dearer Infinity May Sea Growing Growing Old Deeply

Truth is in things, and not in words. Herman Melville

Truth Truth Is Words Things

Modesty is the conscience of the body. Honore de Balzac

Modesty Body Conscience

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. Honore de Balzac

Love Wisdom Apprehension Spirit Rises Through Heavenly Which Things

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. Honore de Balzac

Pleasure More Diving Bottom Up Than Gravel Bring Pearls

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honore de Balzac

Time Day Every Day Simple Husband Lover Difficult Every Say Easier Pretty Pretty Things More Simple Reason Witty Than From Time To Time Reason Things

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