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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]
All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.
I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.
I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.
In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be.
Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely.
Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.
Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?
I don't know myself. I don't know what I want or how I feel or how I should feeland I don't think I ever really have.
All I see are ankles and wrists--and FYI, you're pulling a Mileyfrickin'-Cyrus with that belly flash. Not attractive.
The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.
Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.
Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.
Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.
How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.
Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.
What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.