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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck
The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
I press to my centre, and find there is something there.
There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.
Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.
When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.
Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.
Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
Ultimately, all our complaints are directed against God.
Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!
A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love
I fear no man. Sometimes I think I do not even fear God.
The problem with a man bag is that it's called a man bag.
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
On n'e chappe pas a' son sort. One cannot escape destiny.
I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.
No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react.
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.