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The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
Half the point of education is to build peer groups and social bonds.
When I met my husband, he had never spent more than £10 on a haircut.
Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.
Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you
These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.
Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
People who walk by faith don't see obstacles, they see opportunities.
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’
Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.
There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.
Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.
Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.