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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.
Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.
Ash, I want you. Bad, very very bad. But you deserve better than this
If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.
Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.
Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.
People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.
between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.
Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.
My grandmother wore a beehive hairdo even when it was out of fashion.
A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.
Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.
How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.
Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'
Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.