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I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.
I'm not denying that he's a terrific guy, but I'm not sure he's terrific for me.
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.
Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.
You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!
There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.
...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.
Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.
If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?
I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.
That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.
I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.
I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.
There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.
The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.
I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.
The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.
Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.