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The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.
Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.
Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.
The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.
International football is the continuation of war by other means.
Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.
You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.
I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.
She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.
What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.
...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.
It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.
a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
in religion even when the reward is far the hope is so immediate.
A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American.
To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss.
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.