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Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.
Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.
The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.
Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.
Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.
What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.
The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.
Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.
We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.
There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.
If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.
I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.
Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.
Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.