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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.
I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.
It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.
This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.
Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.
There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.
The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.
Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.
I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.
There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.
in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?
the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
...and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!
I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.
When I told you that I’d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?
Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.
The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.