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I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.
CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.
Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.
As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.
No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.
But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.
The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.
And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.
It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
Always the bridesmaid , never the bride." Always the godfather, never the god".
To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.
Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present.
Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.
Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.