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I am a lady young in beauty waiting Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss.
What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?
Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.
I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.
An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.
Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.
For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate.
All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.
A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.
Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.
Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.
I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
I know that Perugia is probably the least-welcome place for me in the entire world.
No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.
Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.
Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.
I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.
I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.
The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.
There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.
self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.
Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.