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Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.
Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?
My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.
I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.
You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.
This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.
People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith
It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.
Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.
There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.
Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.
I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.
There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.
This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up
Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.
The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.
If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.
Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.
I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
People who know various movie versions don't really know the story.
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.
It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
All lovers are unique. Bad sex can be very thrilling for the heart.
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.