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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.
There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.
Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.
Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.
A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken