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New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.
Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.
Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.
Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.
Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror
All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews.
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.
Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.
All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.
I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.
I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.
I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.
The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul.
There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.
There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.
Salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men.
. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.
Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.
Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.
Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.