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We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.
A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?
I steer clear of any novel that gets billed as a 'meditation.'
Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.
Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?
Boys don't cry. But they do. We do. I do. I weep all the time.
I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.
If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.
Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.
You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.
For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.
It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.
The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.
It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.
Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?
I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone.
To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles
We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.
The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?
The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.
I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.