“Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.”
Weekend Words
Weekend Words: Lane
“The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand.”
Weekend Words: Stair
“History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.”
Weekend Words: Moderate
“Extremism in the pursuit of the Presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.”
Weekend Words: Confusion
“The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. “
Weekend Words: Soft
“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.”
Weekend Words: Evaporate
“If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that’s no kind of behavior for a planet.”
Weekend Words: Withdraw
“When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.”
Weekend Words: Heart
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”
Weekend Words: Heir
“I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting — of art in general — which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.”