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In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.
Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.
Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.
Raki is bad enough, but it's nectar compared with pulque.
A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.
Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.
So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.
I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.
Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.
For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.
Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.
A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm
Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.
Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?
I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.
There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.