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That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.
We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.
there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.
Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.
An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!
When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.
Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!
You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.
I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.
Drinking is a remarkable, automatic release and a way of relaxing.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.
Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
Yes, ever since antiquity, the day after Friday has been Saturday.
One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.
The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.
I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!