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Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".
I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.
I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you
I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.
I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.
My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.
If you get back into the beginner mindset, you can unearth an energy and a fire that I didn't know I could even still possess.
I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?
It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?
I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.
if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.
[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.
I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.
His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.
Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.
When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them
The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.
A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence.