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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.
The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”
Crowpaw,I can hear the voices clearly now, this is for me to do.
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.
I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.
Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up
No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.
Back to work. If I’m [writing] I’m not thinking about the crazy.
Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.
The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.
Keep your mind young by continuing to learn about your business.
Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
Beyond matter is spirit and in spirit there is nothing but love.
As you feel more and more love, begin to smile, let go, be free.
Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.
When you love, you should always watch the quality of your love.
Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.
Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.