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-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?
Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.
I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.
[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?
I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.
She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head.
As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.
Some of the craziest aspects about 'Weeper' were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people.
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.
In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.
This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.
To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.
All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well.
Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone.
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping
Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.
If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.
Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.
I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.
People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.