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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.
No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.
I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology.
The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.
Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.
Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.
The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.
It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest
We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.
Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.
Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die
if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.
People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should.
Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.
Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.
It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.
Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.
Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.
I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.
I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.
I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.