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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me
If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME.
If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.
I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.
We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
I was seen as a traitor for marrying a Muslim - a Pakistani at that.
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery.
Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.
Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.
I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.
love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.
It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.