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I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.
You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.
He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.
I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.
I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.
Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.
The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?
I don't have a good thing to say about Eric Bischoff or anything he ever did. Talk about the Midas touch, he was the opposite.
Bret 'the Hitman' Hart from circa, say, 1997, the U.S.-bashing Bret Hart, would have to lay a beat down on John Cena, I think.
There's a lot of talent out there that miss their opportunities, and I just hope that AJ Styles doesn't waste his life in TNA.
Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.
I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.
Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.
Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.
It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.
It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.