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Do not determine to change your life eventually. If you have decided to change your life, it is already changing.
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.
Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice.
Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.
That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.
From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.
Trust me," he said. "I know what I'm doing... or at least" -- he strolled confidently to the door -- "Felix does.
Did you know— then?” asked Harry. “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.
I suppose this is for the best," Blay said into his shoulder. "You can't cook." "See? I'm so not Prince Charming.
It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless
The warrior (Zsadist) rolled his black eyes. "Come on, man. What does it matter to me? You, Tohr. Britney Spears.
She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno , she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.
Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.
...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.
Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
When he inches into me, I feel the pain, but I also feel the invisible chains around my wrists break and shatter.
You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.