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What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
you have to look at life, feel it, face it, and deal with it.
Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
I need the kind of help that comes with a side order of help.
I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.
Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done.
You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.
Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?
You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.
Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence
And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.
In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.
sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.
I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.
It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.
Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.
The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.
The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.
We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.
If you are a writer, Saturday and Sunday don't mean anything.
I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.