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Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.
In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.
And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.
Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.
If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.
An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.
Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.
He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.
The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.
Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.