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The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.
He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.
I've got plenty of money, more money than I ever dreamed I would have. But I am not a billionaire.
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
Two people unable to cry finally cry together and in the world ended today, we would be fulfilled.
People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.
It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.
Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.
The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.
I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.
Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.
I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.
I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.
Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.
Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.
Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.
Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!