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Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.
You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.
I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.
It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.
You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.
Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.
She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.
I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.
I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.
I am so thrilled to carve out a few minutes to write that I grab it whenever I can.
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.
Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.
The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.
In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.