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If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.
Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?
For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.
You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.
After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.
We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.
Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.
I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.
You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.
Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.
Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.