Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
Martin Amis
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and... →
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on... →
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory