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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.
Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.
I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'
It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.
Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath. 'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.
Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?
If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing"; - "We accept the love we think we deserve.
I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.
Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.
Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.
Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.
I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.
You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.
I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.