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You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind.
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.
Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.
You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.
He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.
And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet." He almost purred. I gulped.
It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]
I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.
Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?