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I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.
I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.
The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
I tend to think shorts are too casual That's just not businesslike.
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?
All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.
If 50 million people say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing.
We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
I'll tell you how to get up in the morning......watch for the dawn.
The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.
Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.
I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.
Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.
Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.
Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.