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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.
…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?
It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.
And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?
Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.
Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.
Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.
If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.
You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.
The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate.
The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.
Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.
....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.
Whoa. He had ghouls on speed dial. My lawyer kicks so much ass.
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.
the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.
One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
I've always expressed my thoughts in color but we remain blind.
I love clothes, but I love them in a very 'regular person' way.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.