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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.
I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The.
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.
It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.
When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.
Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.
Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.