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The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.
I think one's person's unlikeable is another's lovable.
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.
There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
"Old" is definitely not cool in America. Never has been.
He had given her too much. He had given her everything.
Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.
Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.
Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.
The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.
The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.
Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.
I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.
I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.
I think I have grown impatient with just being a writer.
What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.
Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
In real life there is no such person as the average man.
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.
Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.