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Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.
No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.
It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.
What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
No matter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.
We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.
Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.
I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.
Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.
I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.
Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.
I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.
Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night
Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.
From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.
Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.
We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.
The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.
I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.
God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.
I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.
I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.
He fainted. Then he came to and remembered what happened and fainted again.
... if you have nothing, you are free to choose among dreams and fantasies.
I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.
Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.
OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.