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I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.
It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.
Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.
We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.
Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.
Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.
No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.
The eyes are the windows of a woman's heart; you may enter that a way!
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.
Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.
You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.