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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.
'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.
Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever.
If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.
To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.
A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.
Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.