Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one’s own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you-either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThere’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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