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All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.
The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.
She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.
Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.
If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.
No offense to hot girls everywhere- but newsflash- there are hot girls everywhere.
Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.
Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.
The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.
My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.
Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.
What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.
The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.