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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.
We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.
Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.
Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.
That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.
You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?
Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.
In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.
The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.
You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.
Home is the place where there is somebody who does not wish you any pain.
It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine.
There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.
This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.
We would all be incredibly boring to a vampire who is 400, 500 years old.
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.
Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.
Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.