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Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.
No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.
Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.
It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!
I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.
People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.
Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.
Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.
We can never give up the belief that the good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.
Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?
There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.
I definitely have my own brand, and so I never, ever envision myself with anyone else's lips.
I'm anything but a small-town girl. I have big, big dreams, and I plan on making them happen.
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway.
No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.
A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.