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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.
Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.
I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.
All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.
I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.
He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him
No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.
You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.
October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.
The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.
My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.
Well o' course she's feelin' dandy! She's the mother o' God for the love o' Pete!
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
I've been called many things. But I suppose 'the devil' is as good a name as any.
a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.
To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?
To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.