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Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.
Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.
If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.
Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.
You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.
Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.
Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it.