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I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.
In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.
I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
I'm so straight and boring, really. I have two kids and a very nice partner.
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.
Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness.
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.