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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.
Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting.
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.
What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.
Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.
We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!
I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.
Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.
I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.
To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.