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I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.
Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!
A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.
Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.
I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.
I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.
here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.
Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.
The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.
There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion
Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.
And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.