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There are people you remember and people you dream of.
You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.
A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.
Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.
I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.
I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
You're a smart boy. Or if you're not, you ought to be.
I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.
A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.
There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.
'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.
Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?
Never lend your car keys to someone you gave birth to.
Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.
Words and a book and a belief that the world is words.
What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.
Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!
My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.
Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.
You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.