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When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap.
...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?
...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.
I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.
That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.
Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.
Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.
For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.
The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.
I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.
There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do
But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.
I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.