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If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.
I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.
I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.
I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.
If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.
You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.
You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!
Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.
There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh
Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.
Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.
How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.