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Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!
No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.
If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.
If the husband is always the prime suspect, the lover must be second in line.
It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.
I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.
The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.
Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.
The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?
'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.
What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.
I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.
what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.
Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work
No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.
I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.
I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.