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Always listen to your heart, because even though its on your left side, its always right.
In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.
If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.
Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.
It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?
The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.
Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.
'Tigerman' was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai.
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.
Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.
Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.
What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?
For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.
Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.
I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
Lunch is the best time of day to eat in Paris. Then you get to go walk it off afterwards.
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.
I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.