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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.
Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.
You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.
It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles.
If Ivanka Trump called, I think good people need to serve.
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.
I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.
She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.
What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!
The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.
Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.
If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.
A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.
Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins.
The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit.
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.