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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up
This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
A writer has to fully defend his rights and his own worth.
An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.
Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.
Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.