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My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.
I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.
You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.
Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?
I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.
I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.
I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.
I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.
It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.