Andre Dubus @andre active 10 years ago

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

Facts are the enemy of truth. (Don Quixote – Man of La Mancha)

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. (G. B. Burgin)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)