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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.
His lips nuzzled her ear. “Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die,” he whispered.
'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.
The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?
Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.
I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.
After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.