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Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.
It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.
Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.
He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.
I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.
All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.
I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.
Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.
What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.