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... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses
Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.
One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.
Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.
A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.
No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
Women alone always order sole. It means something.
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.
It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.
I think books should have secrets, like people do.
Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
I can't start writing until I have a closing line.
I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.
Everything is in the way the material is composed.
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
Could we betray our parents by going back to them?
Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.
Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.
If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.
I can’t run around falling in love with fantasies.
Some people need God and some people need science.
My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
An English man does not travel to see English men.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.
Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?
Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.