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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.
Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.
I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.
Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.
You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.
I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.
My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.
If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.
There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.
Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life
prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.
Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.
Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.
My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.
The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.
happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.
How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.