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We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.
Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.
One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.
I used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating.
Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.
I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.
You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.
It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.
If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.
There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.
Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.
People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.
The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.
Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.
It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.
I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it
Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.
People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.