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Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.
Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.
A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.
I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled
...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.
Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.
As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.
He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.
I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.
The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.
Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.
We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.
A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.
Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused.
Chivalry isn't really dead you know." "Oh?" "Nah. That guy's just an asshole.
Ooh, J, he's got ink too." "Just when i didn't think he could get any hotter.
I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.
I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?