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"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
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"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."
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"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."
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"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
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"I don't know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani'sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children's cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we're doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?"
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"Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations."
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"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
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"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."
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"Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet."
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"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for."
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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
Politics
"I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies."
Connection
"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out."
Truth
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
Reality
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
Life
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."
Intelligence
"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob."
Practice
"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
People
"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it."
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