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There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!
And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.
Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.
People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.
Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.
Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.
It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.