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The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.
I'm not trying to make a speech on CD because who wants to buy that?
I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.
The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.
Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.
Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.
When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Amazing Love! how can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.
He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.
I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.
Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.
here is no competition of sounds Between a nightingale and a violin.
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.
Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move!
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.
And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.