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I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?
Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?
One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.
Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.
You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.
There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?
A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.
Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.
Hell is given up so reluctantly by those who don't expect to go there
Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates
There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.
Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.
Just so you know: if a rakshasa shows up, I left my sword in the car.
Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.
A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines.
God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together.
Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.
But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.
Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
The look in Manny´s eye was the ocular equivalent of a middle finger.
I love you forever" didn't always need to be spoken to be understood.
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl.