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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. (Ace Goodman)
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. (Ace Goodman)
One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question. (Ace Goodman)
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people. (Ace Goodman)
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His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. (Ace Goodman)
Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. (Ace Goodman)
When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cruel, or beautiful, or true, he knows he must do so as a stranger. (Ace Goodman)
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. (Ace Goodman)
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. (Ace Goodman)
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. (Ace Goodman)
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. (Ace Goodman)
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. (Ace Goodman)
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. (Ace Goodman)
Morality is a private and costly luxury. (Ace Goodman)
Children are our most valuable resorce. (Ace Goodman)
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. (Ace Goodman)
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. (Ace Goodman)
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. (Ace Goodman)
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby it. (Ace Goodman)
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. (Ace Goodman)
Compassion is the basis of all morality. (Ace Goodman)
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. (Ace Goodman)
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. (Ace Goodman)
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. (Ace Goodman)
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. (Ace Goodman)
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