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If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.
In that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light.
Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.
As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.
I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.
Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them.
When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.
A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.
Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?
One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.
Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.
Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!
When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .
There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.