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What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?
Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen?
I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen.
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.
And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?
Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .
The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware.
I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.
What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.
Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes." -Beth
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.
Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.
He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.
people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
My grandmother valued her Southern roots, folk culture, and healing.
Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.
A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.
I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!
Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.
Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.