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It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
You know, dulceata, there are times when I truly believe you are the most frightening person I know. Thank you?
There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.
Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.
Sex with a woman who wants to please a man is nothing compared to sex with a woman who wants to please herself.
It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.
I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.
I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.
I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.
Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.
Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.
If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life
Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.
I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her