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You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.
If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?
There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.
Your cells are as depressed as you are, and your cells are as happy and frisky as you are.
Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.
the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
I'm just thankful that I continue to do therapy because it makes the world a better place.
There's no reason to hide anything; there's just timeliness of age and what's appropriate.
I'm really not into black guys. I think that's more of a Kardashian thing. God bless them.
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!
We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.
Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.
We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.
It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.
We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.
Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
Without trust, there can be no loyalty - and without loyalty, there can be no true growth.
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.
The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.
You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.