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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.
Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.
You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.
Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.
My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.
Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.
My problem with the alt-right is it rules out Wayne Dupree.
Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.
I recognized that the kiss was a door I had walked through.
The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.
The only thing that changes in my novels are the locations.
Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.
Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.
One only hope my heart can cheer, - The hope to meet again.
Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.
Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.
If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.
He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.
If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.
Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?
I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.