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Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.
Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!
That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.
Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.
The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)
The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.
Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.
Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?
I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.
Perhaps I just wasn't scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs.
You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.
Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.
Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.
Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride.
All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.
What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.
Because I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally…in love with you.
Word of advice. These have a kick, so don’t suck too hard—” Holy hypoxia, Batman.
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.