Quotes Library

September 6, 2025

Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ben Hecht (1894–1964), American journalist, writer, A Guide for the Bedevilled (1947), Seldes p.177

What do you suppose caused the shipwreck? And to what sort of safety?

No doubt Jane Austen would agree that pride can be made to serve the same purpose.

May 14, 2025

10 months ago

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

April 2, 2025

11 months ago

[I occupy] the extreme right-wing edge of the left-wing movement.

February 12, 2025

1 year ago

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go well together.

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