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I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.
Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.
Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.
A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.
You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.
And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.
Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.
We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.
Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.
In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod.
Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.
You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.