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You've given me value, Duncan. In my heart I know I matter to you.
physical beauty should have no importance in a lasting relationship.
I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.
I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.
As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.
The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".
I first went to Haiti in 1979. I've gone back every few years since.
Now smile a real smile for me so I know you`re not suffering inside.
Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.
A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.
Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.
What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.
Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.
My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.
It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.
If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground.
There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another.
Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs?
You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.
You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.
Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?
A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.
My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.
What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
It's all in your head -- you just have no idea how big your head is.
Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.
Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.
Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.