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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.
Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years
You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?
Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.
My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.
Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.
I love you. I'm not sure if it's the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you.
When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.
Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.
I think there are many Democrats who are good, strong leaders. The person I like the most is my nephew, Congressman Joe Kennedy.
See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.
When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed
The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.
Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.
Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.
I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.
Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.
You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.
To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.
And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.
Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.
I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.
There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.
The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.
I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.
I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.
There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.
The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.