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If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.
He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.
I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
In television, what you are doing is trying to fit your voice into a particular mold.
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.
I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.