Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I work whenever I'm let.
We are born knowing death.
What we need is endless courage.
words can never get at the truth.
What we need now is endless courage.
I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
I always write a story in one sitting.
Death is loneliness in its purest form.
I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
You waste life when you waste good food.
Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
It is such a relief to be told the truth.
Be respectful of words. They mean something.
It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
The past is never where you think you left it.
Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.
Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.
Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.
Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.
Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.
Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.