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The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.
Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.
Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.
Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.
The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime
In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.
Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.
Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?
I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.
In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.
After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.
Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?
Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.
You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.
Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.