Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
We are the hero of our own story.
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
In violence, we forget who we are.
If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’." (on Lillian Hellman)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
