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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again
A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.
Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.
Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.
Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.
Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.
We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.
Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.
Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.
Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.