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I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.
I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.
The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.
... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.
These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.
Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."
Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.
Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.