Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
I listen to the voices.
Poor man. Poor mankind.
I will never lie again.
Caddy smelled like trees.
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
History is not was, it is.
You can't. You just have to.
Who gathers the withered rose?
Try to be better than yourself.
My, my. A body does get around.
She was the captain of her soul
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
Read, read read. Read everything.
You men,' she says. 'You durn men.
Idleness breeds our better virtues.
I decline to accept the end of man.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
Did you ever have a sister? did you?
No one individual can tell the truth.
Civilization begins with distillation
A gentleman can live through anything.
Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
The past isn't over. It isn't even past.
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
You have to write badly in order to write well.
I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art.
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
I am not one of those women who can stand things.
Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
