The Edification of Sissy Dare

After that democracy will continue its triumph by curing cancer, halting the greenhouse effect and scoring a perfect ten in figure skating. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection. Ayer "Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification" - Karl Popper A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]: There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no better cure than business. It's always darkest before it's totally black. A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.

But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth. Whoe'er thou art, they master see; He is, he was, or he shall be. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. We find it as difficult to forgive a person for displaying his feeling in all its nakedness as we do to forgive a man for being penniless. This father had given everything. Throughout twenty years he had given his love, his whole heart; he gave his fortune in one day.

When the lemon was well squeezed his daughters left the rind in the gutter. Soon you'll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most--and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial. Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good. How can you build on such quicksand? Their most trivial actions may mean volumes But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: Would it have been worth while If one, settling a Pillow or throwing off a shawl, And turning toward the window, should say: Elliot Getting a movie made in Hollywood is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.

There is no middle ground! But this wasn't it. Mencken The beatings will continue until morale improves. If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Mencken The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Compare to the generalist who knows less and less about more and more till he knows nothing about everything.

At night, the ice-weasels come. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases.

Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up for me. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong.

Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.

Dombey and Son ch. Menger If what you have to say is not more beautiful than silence, be still. I could not have done that—says my pride and remains implacable. Finally, my memory gives up. Hence the man wants the woman to be peaceful, but woman, like a cat, is essentially not peaceful, however much she may have practised an appearance of peacefulness.

Moreover, nothing then would be immoral; everything would be lawful, even cannibalism. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt. And this is true of ourselves too.

You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space? A hostile person lives in a hostile world: When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. A wise person avoids it. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.

To keep your balance you must keep moving. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. You cannot lose at it; you may gain.

It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play. But there is also always some reason in madness. Excess of joy weeps. As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers. Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night. Expect poison from the standing water. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. Listen to the fools reproach! As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.

I see the glass as too big. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked. Z is keep your mouth shut. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer Ask her to wait a moment— I am almost done. Finally, two days ago, I succeeded— not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. But let my love no longer trouble you, I do not wish to cause you any pain. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. Not the opinion of others, but his opinion of their opinion is what he cares about. But then they no longer have any powerful thought to rule their life and determine it anew; rather, in its stead, comes the intention of finding a rhyme.

Women do the same with their lovers. That man is to be pitied who lets himself in with such ghostly, necessarily unsatisfying creatures; but just these women are able to stimulate man's desire most intensely: Unless he is distinguished because of them: First and foremost because once their hostile feeling has been aroused, they are inhibited by no considerations of fairness but let their hatred swell undisturbed to the final consequences; and second, because they are practiced in finding sore spots which every man, every party has and stabbing there: There are many kinds of hemlock, and fate usually finds an opportunity to set a cup of this poison to the lips of the free spirit--to "punish" him, as everyone then says.

What do the women around him do then? They will cry and lament and perhaps disturb the thinker's twilight peace, as they did in the prison of Athens. Yeats You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Yeats The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument.

If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. I trust I make mself obscure? Does he not shed tears of joy as well as grief, and grow impatient about nothing, about the stones with which he tries to build an unsteady palace, about the flowers forgotten as soon as picked? Is he not eager to grasp time and put it behind him, to get on with his business of life? Love is the soul's second metamorphosis. Mencken - The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. Somerset Maugham - It is thought a disgrace to love unrequited.

But the great will see that true love cannot be unrequited. True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer. Mencken There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong. Mencken, This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Lewis To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. Lewis Width of life is more important than length of life.

If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would be not one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell. I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better it appears to me. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this.

You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. What greater captivity or slavery can there be than to be in love? I, for one, have long since freed myself from all shackles, and even obligations. I only recognize obligations when I see I have something to gain by them.

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You yearn for the ideal, for virtue. But, my dear friend, I am ready to recognize anything you tell me to, but what shall I do if I know for a fact that at the root of all human virtues lies the most intense egoism? And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!

I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. That is their tragedy. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. When bad economists die, they come back as sociologist. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety - Pascal. The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.

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You have to catch it yourself. Luck is the residue of design. Aristotle "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act. Perhaps there are people who know that they have nothing more to look for from those with whom they live; they have shown the emptiness of their hearts to their housemates, and in their secret selves they are conscious that they are severely judged, and that they deserve to be judged severely; but still they feel an unconquerable craving for praises that they do not hear, or they are consumed by a desire to appear to possess, in the eyes of a new audience, the qualities which they have not, hoping to win the admiration or affection of strangers at the risk of forfeiting it again some day.

Or, once more, there are other mercenary natures who never do a kindness to a friend or a relation simply because these have a claim upon them, while a service done to a stranger brings its reward to self-love. Such natures feel but little affection for those who are nearest to them; they keep their kindness for remoter circles of acquaintance, and show most to those who dwell on its utmost limits" - Balzac Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell - Edward Abbey. More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one. Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others. He who is endowed with it may perform either very great actions or very bad ones; all depends upon the principles which direct him. For when China wakes, it will shake the world. This was the first lesson I had heard about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways - and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives.

But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. She had always counted on that hatred, she had felt it in the air when the phantom was near, and the mere sight of him had upset and frightened her so that she never found a natural way to behave with him. On the night when he reiterated his love for her, while the flowers for her dead husband were still perfuming the house, she could not believe that his insolence was not the first step in God knows what sinister plan for revenge.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. They are conflicts between two rights. Seek what they sought. Otherwise they'll kill you!

Utter not a word till thou knowest that it is the mirror of what is correct. And I soon realized the cruelty of that chase, which in those days was more carefully disguised with hypocrisy and glittering words than it is today. Here were assertions, as for example the intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle in one point, which -- though by no means evident -- could nevertheless be proved with such certainty that any doubt appeared to be out of the question.

This lucidity and certainty made an indescribable impression on me. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. Busily building on the way those madly extravagant castles in the air which give young people's lives such a rich emotional colouring.

When engaged in this exercise they think nothing of obstacles or dangers; success crowns everything they undertake.

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The mere play of their imagination gilds their existence with romance, and the failure of enterprises that never had a life outside their fevered fancy can reduce them to sadness or discouragement. If they were not inexperienced and shy the social world would be impossible. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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Most people exist, that is all. Schulz The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living. When you do so, you apologize for truth. Home Contact Us Help Free delivery worldwide. The Edification of Sissy Dare. Copeland is the stunning story of one remarkable woman's transformation. Sissy Dare meets and falls for Aaron, a young paraplegic, when she's just a girl, but that love will follow and transform her up until she approaches her 40th year. Devastated when he chooses another, she finds solace with a strong feminist friend and years later is finally able to marry Aaron herself.

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But marriage is not what she expects. Aaron's world is rarified and filled with self-important people who care more about money and status than they do about other people. As tensions build, Sissy spirals into a deep depression until she begins to figure out just what it is in life that she really wants. Gorgeously written and told with warmth and insight, The Edification of Sissy Dare is a uniquely American story with universal themes which examines love, hate, patriarchy and feminism, in a distinctly original way.

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