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Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.
I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.
A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.
But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.
I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.
And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.
In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.
On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.
And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.
A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.
Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.
What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.
there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.