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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.
I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.
When I was fifteen I believed that sex was nearly the same thing as softball.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal.
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.
Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.
Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.
We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.
Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.
There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.
At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.
Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.
I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.
One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.
Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.
I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.
And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?
I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.
When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.
Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?
I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.
The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.