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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!
You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.
Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.
Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.
I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.
Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.
'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.
Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.
I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.
Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.
Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.
The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.
I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.
The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.
What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.