Wit & Wisdom

“Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education

“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”

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Poet/novelist James Stephens, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”

Lillian Hellman, quoted in the Associated Press

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”

Thomas Merton, quoted in Bookreporter.com

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”

John Updike, quoted in the London Independent

“Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.”

Francis Bacon, quoted in Forbes.com

“I’m a firm believer in the longer you live, the better you get.”

Bob Dylan, quoted in the Montreal Gazette