If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable"
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
This quote by Falukner was originally uttered I'm reference to Ernest Hemingway, but could just as easily been referring to Trump:
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
George Bernard Shaw: "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... If you have one."
Churchill Responds: "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one."
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
"He had delusions of adequacy."
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Lady Astor: "Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee! "
Winston: "Madam if I were your husband I would drink it!"
