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While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk
When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.
The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.
It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being
Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.
Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.
We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods.
The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.
We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
Men like that - when they know they won't be found out - they will do anything.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.
Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.
I have loved another with all my heart, and for me that has always been enough.
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.
and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.
I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room
Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.
Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.
He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.
I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.
The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.
...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
I'm trustworthy and true and a whole of other positive words that start with T.
Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.
when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.
I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?