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After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.
We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes
It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.
It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.
To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.
You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
I want to give up being a bullet I've been a bullet too long The question is Can you give up being a killer?
Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.
What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]
I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.
Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.
We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?
In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.