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For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.
It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.
Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.
He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.
I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.
The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.
Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.
The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.
Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.
I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.
Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.
When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.