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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.
There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.
So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.
'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.
The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?
God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.
If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.
I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.