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Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.
The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
People fear what they can't understand and harm what they fear.
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.
Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying
Let's cut loose what you were given and find what you can seek.
The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.
A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.
Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.
Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.
The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.
He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.
I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.
The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.
Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.
My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?
You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.