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If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.
Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.
The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach
Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.
... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.
Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.
In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.
Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.
Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.
Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
What's your name? Um... Think about it. You don't get to pick again. Tris.
Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.
Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.
There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.
I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.