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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it
Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.
It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.
'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.
To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'
At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.
If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.
In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.
That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.