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Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.
If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.
If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.
People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same.
Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.
Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?
Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...
Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!
I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
To reduce stress, avoid excitement. Spend more time with your spouse.
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.
There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity".
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.
Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.
I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
I'm not afraid to say what I'm afraid of. Does that make me fearless?
Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check." -Cora
D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.
Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.
I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY