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And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!
What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.
There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.
Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.
That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.
I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.
If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.
We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?
If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin
Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.
Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.