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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.
It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.
I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'
I love stories like 'The Terminator' movies and 'The Matrix,' where our machines become self-aware and turn on us.
Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.
the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.
The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk
The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.
Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.
That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.
I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams
Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.
In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.
Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.
What do you do to your hair?" "Dust, hair gel, and a little gun oil." "Ever thought of patenting the recipe?" "No.
Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.
...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.