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Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.
Two weeks together, that’s all it took, two weeks for me to fall in love with you. ♥
Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning
People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.
A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.
Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.
If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.
God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.
When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.
In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.
A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.
I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.
Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.
The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.
Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.
The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.
None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.
He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.
Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.
I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.