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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then
My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.
I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
If its December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.
Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.
I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.
Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.
The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.
Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.
If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.
Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
I am myself my own commander. [Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.
A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.
Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...
Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.
If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.