Truth Is A Pain Which Will Not

Troubles Are As Endless As Pleasures Are Brief.

This Instinctive Repulsion Which Tradespeople Inspire In Men Of Sensitive Feeling Is One Of The Very Rare Consolations For Being So Impoverished Which Are Given To Those Of Us Who Don’t Sell Anything To Anybody.

The Biggest Defeat In Every Department Of Life Is To Forget, Especially The Things That Have Done You In, And To Die Without Realizing How Far People Can Go In The Way Of Crumminess. When The Grave Lies Open Before Us, Let's Not Try To Be Witty, But Record The Worst Of Human Viciousness We've Seen Without Changing One Word. When That's Done, We Can Curl Up Our Toes And Sink Into The Pit. That's Work Enough For A Lifetime.

When You're Not Used To Comfort And Good Things To Eat, You're Intoxicated By Them In No Time. Truth's Only Too Pleased To Leave You. Very Little Is Ever Needed For Truth To Let Go Of You. And After All, You're Not Really Very Keen To Keep Hold Of It.

An Unfamiliar City Is A Fine Thing. That's The Time And Place When You Can Suppose That All The People You Meet Are Nice. It's Dream Time.