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Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!
Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.
For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.
How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.
One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.
Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.
One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.