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All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.
I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.
If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.
Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.
The person you love is 72.8% water, and it hasn't rained for weeks.
I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.
Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.
Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.
When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.
If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.
So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.
I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.
I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.
Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.
Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You'll always regret it.
The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.
There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding.
Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.
Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.
No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.