Poems List

Vikrant Parsai

You appreciate some people most

You appreciate some people most when they deprive you of the pleasure of their company.

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Vikrant Parsai

Don’t be led by the

Don’t be led by the exterior. Give more attention to what lies beneath the skin.

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Vikrant Parsai

Good knowledge of an art

Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficient knowledge will always cause harm to himself and others.

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Vikrant Parsai

Parents usually know where a

Parents usually know where a teen-age son is: he is in the family car; but they don’t know where the car is.

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Vikrant Parsai

An apology is saying the

An apology is saying the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

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Vikrant Parsai

If you never take advice,

If you never take advice, you will never have anyone to blame things on.

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Vikrant Parsai

The best kind of mind

The best kind of mind is that which minds its own business.

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Vikrant Parsai

An apology is an expression

An apology is an expression of regret where the voice rarely matches the words.

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Vikrant Parsai

Education teaches a man how

Education teaches a man how to speak, now how long or how often.

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Vikrant Parsai

You can’t tell from a

You can’t tell from a man’s clothes how much he makes: look at his wife.

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Ethan Atwood

Sometimes things happen for a

Sometimes things happen for a reason...

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Chuck Palahniuk

You are not special. You

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

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Ray Bradbury

To hell with you. To

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

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Ray Bradbury

If you hide your ignorance,

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.

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Stephen Vizinczey

Powerful men in particular suffer

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

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Stephen Vizinczey

Consistency is a virtue for

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

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Stephen Vizinczey

When you close your eyes

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

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Stephen Vizinczey

Like all wage slaves, he

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

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Stephen Vizinczey

Perhaps in a book review

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

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Stephen Vizinczey

Is it possible that I

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

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Stephen Vizinczey

We now have a whole

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

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Stephen Vizinczey

Most bad books get that

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

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Stephen Vizinczey

Strange as it may seem,

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

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Stephen Vizinczey

The only virtue a character

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

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