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...the tourist Venice is Venice.
We are the hero of our own story.
In violence, we forget who we are
In violence, we forget who we are.
Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.
The happy ending is our national belief.
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."
I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.
Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.
To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.
Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.
It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.
If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.
It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.
For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.
most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.
The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.
Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.
Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.