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I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.
When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.
Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.
I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.
Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.
Even the geekiest of guys could get the girl if he read every romance novel that came out in any given month.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.
Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.
I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.
It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.
If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.
Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.
It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.
Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.
Some hurts can never be mended" he said. "No matter how much time passes. They tattoo themselves on our souls
When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.
A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.
If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.