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Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.
Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.
Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
We both spend our money on things that break too easily like… people.
The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.
My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.
I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.
We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.
Don't eat those nice green dollars your wife gives you for breakfast.
Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all).
Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.