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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock
Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.
I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.
The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.
It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]
I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.
Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.
It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.
Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.