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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
You drive me crazy!" "You were always crazy. I just highlight it.
Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.
I wanted to be somebody, go somewhere, do something with my life.
Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated
We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.
The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.
Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.
Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.
What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?
Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.
A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.