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You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.
Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.
It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.
And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.
We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.
My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.
Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.
Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.
You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.
I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.
My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.
There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.
Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.