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there are elements of truth in all great fiction
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.
We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds
No one commits suicide because they want to die.
An overnight success is ten years in the making.
Most things in here don't react well to bullets.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.
Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.
Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
People don't follow titles, they follow courage.
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
I was taking the bad boy off the market for good.
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
The first time you do a thing is always exciting.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?
We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.
Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.
God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
A girl's affections should never be won unsought.
It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.