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I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.
Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.
Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.
From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.
I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.
What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.
Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes
Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.
A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.
The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.
I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.