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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
Build your house with the stones they hurled at you
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.
Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.
If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?
I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.
When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.
Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.
Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.
Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.
Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.
Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.
That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.
When a child is born the mother also is born again.
Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
But there are some wounds that can never be healed.
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.
The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.