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I'm a different person in French. I'm a different person in New York. I'm a different person in Canada.
There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.
I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.
There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.
Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.
Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
The majority of border collie owners and breeders don't want to have anything to do with the show ring.
If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.
The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!
The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.
happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.
What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?
Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.