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There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.
he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.
I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.
If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?
He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.
Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.
There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.
I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.
He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.
Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.