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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.
Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.
Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!
I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.
As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?
I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.
Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them.
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.
North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.
In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.
Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.
Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.
No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.