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Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.
In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.
And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.
You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.
And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.
Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.
Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.
That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.
Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.
What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
How about we talk about your love life instead?" "Why? Are you in the mood to be depressed?
What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.
Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you.
We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.
Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.
The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.
I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.
When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.
It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.