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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.
If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.
It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others.
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.
All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.
If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?
It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.
Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.
I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.
Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.
They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.
It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.