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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?
The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'
Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.
It’s a moment I’ll remember forever, because it belongs to me.
Just because it's broken doesn't mean it loses its importance.
Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.
One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
There's something very reassuring... about the written record.
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.
I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."
Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.
It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon.
Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.
The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.
It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.
In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.
An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.
You are telling me that your lawyer is a bloodsucking vampire?
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
Sex stops when you pull up your pants, Love never lets you go.
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.
As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.
There is no panic you can't allay, no problem you can't solve.
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.
It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.