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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.
It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.
Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.
In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.
I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?
Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.
I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.
does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?
Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.
Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.
I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.
I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.
the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.