Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.


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I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe...
PHILIP ROTH
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruit...
PHILIP MASSINGER
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
PHILIP PULLMAN
If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says...
GENEREUX PHILIP
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ...
PHILIP YANCEY
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi...
PHILIP PULLMAN
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and si...
PHILIP PULLMAN
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
PHILIP PULLMAN
Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of o...
GENEREUX PHILIP
I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I us...
PHILIP PULLMAN
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
PHILIP KNIGHT
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
PHILIP WYLIE
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con...
PHILIP ROTH
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the...
PHILIP GUEDALLA
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
PHILIP JOHNSON
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an...
PHILIP ROTH
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER
When in doubt, delete it.
PHILIP COSBY
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
PHILIP ROTH
For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devil'...
PHILIP LARKIN
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
PHILIP MASSINGER
We do pretty much whatever we want to.
PHILIP JOHNSON