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To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.
I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.
The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.
You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.
I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.
The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away.
Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.
Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.
Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.
The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.
No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature