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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.
Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?
Maybe it's the feminine side of me, but I like that AM radio pop.
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world.
I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.
Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.
You fainted," I told Tank. "I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.
My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.
Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.
We must have the audacity to turn up the frequency of our truths.
To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.
External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.
A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.
There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?
Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.
Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?
I have a joyful life, and I attribute that to both of my parents.
Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.
You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.