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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)
The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.
Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.
To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.
In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.
I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.
creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.
Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.
How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.
Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.
Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.
When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.
I love you too, Will Blakelee," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again.
sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.
The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.
If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are
I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.
You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.
No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.
The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.