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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year.
It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.
I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?
But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.
Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.
I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.
Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.
There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you
I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head
Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.
The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!
Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.
[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.
I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.