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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.
Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.
Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.
I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.
Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.
Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.
The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.
I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.
To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.
If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.
Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.
John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.
The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.
There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.
That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.
Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.
Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.
Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.
A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.
It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.