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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.
You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.
Whatever was said about Ralph Ellison, 'Invisible Man' was considered untouchable.
Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.
A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .
I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.
Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!