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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.
The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.
Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?
He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait...
Aha," Andrea said. "I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'.
Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.
We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!
He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.
Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.
Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.
Failure is so impor - it doesn't get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the time.
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.
I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.
Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.
National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.