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One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.
The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane.
Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.
It’s not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.
Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.
Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.
Colin stared at the officer. “Thorne, you scare me. I’m not ashamed to say it.
I'm male. You rubbed your...femaleness all over me. I didn't think. I reacted.
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.
When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.
For me, the way to approach a subject such as Vietnam is through storytelling.
Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.
Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.
I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?
I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.
You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.
Prince Charming can go suck rocks. I've met my true love and he's a contractor
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.