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Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.
Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great
A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.
I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.
Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.
When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least.
It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. Thats my nature.
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.
The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.
It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.
It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.
Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.
she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.
What began it all was the bright bone of a dream I could hardly hold onto.
Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.
Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.