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... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.
Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.
I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
sometimes you just gotta trust that your secret's been kept long enough.
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.
I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.
I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
A sport has its own built-in integrity - doesn't need an artificial one.
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.
Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career