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Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.
Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.
People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.
I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is
I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.
It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.
AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.