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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
What people need and what they want may be very different.
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.
The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.
The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.
Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.
Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.
When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.
Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.
When you send out real love, real love will return to you.
At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.
I know important literary writers who can't get published.
We’re all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.
Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.
The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.
Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.
Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.
Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.
Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.
An artist's job is to be interested in things as they are.
Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.