Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to...

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to...

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in...

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in...

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America,...

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America,...

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships...

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships...

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a...

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a...

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical...

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical...

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common...

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common...

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In...

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In...

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time...

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time...

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write...

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write...

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In...

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In...

Time is not a road - it is a room

Time is not a road - it is a room

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical...

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical...

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

An answer is always a form of death.

An answer is always a form of death.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the...

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the...

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other And I will look on...

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other And I will look on...