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Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.
As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
When it all comes down to it, it’s just me and her against the world. Always has been.
Stay here, baby" he whispers, like he can read my thoughts. "Trust me, okay? Don't run
How can you want to touch me after what I did?" "How can I ever not want to touch you?
The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.
Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.
When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.
Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.
At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.
I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.
You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.
My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.
You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.
Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not." ~Oberon
Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.