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I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.
What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.
But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.
My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.
Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.
That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.
Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW
Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.
Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"
When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother
I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'
The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.
To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.
When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.
There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.