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Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
I’m not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don’t seek a wide swath of feedback.
I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.
I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.
To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.
Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctials blow.
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.
Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
I assume this is all part of some brutally simplistic plan you've thought up?" "Yes." "Oh, good.
There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.
Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.
When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.
Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.