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It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.
The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.
I'm not nearly as significant as Ralph Nader or the local plumber.
We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things.
Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.
My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.
One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.
What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.
In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.
God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.
A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.
Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.
Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do
Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.
It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.