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The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.
In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.
Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.
If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea.
I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.
There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy.
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
Dexter-Land is a dark and scary place, and I couldn't live there permanently. To be honest, I don't think I even want to visit.
When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.
Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.