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Tell me what you want, sweetheart … Anything. And I’ll do it.
If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.
Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.
Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.
That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within
Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.
...I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars.
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.
You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
Evading military service has a long history in American life.
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.
He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.
Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.
Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.
There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.
My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.