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A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.
I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.
If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.
Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.
Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.
I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.
I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.
We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave
Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.
I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you
Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.
A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.
Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.
In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.
Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.