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When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.
TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.
The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)
You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.
I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.
That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.
When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.
What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.
If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.
I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?
Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.
It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.
Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.
In 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' I couldn't take my eyes off Judith Anderson as Big Mama.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.