Poems List

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly

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It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

"Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)

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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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