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Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.
Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.
Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else.
The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo.
The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.
Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.
But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.
A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.
Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study.
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.
I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course it needn't be.
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.
Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.
When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell."
Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.