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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.
Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.
Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.
I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.
Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.
The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.
Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.
It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.
I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein
There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.
It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.
For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.
By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.
We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.
I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this
There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.
I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.
The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved
At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times.
With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.
I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.
Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.
People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.