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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.
Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.
My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.
The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want
Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch
It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.
When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.
Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end.
It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.
Did that hurt? On your lip?" "Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though.
Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.
Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.
Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.