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Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.
The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them
When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.
It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.
In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.
The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.
It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.