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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.
A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.
Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself
Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.
Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.
It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
...Your angry and jealous and in the mood to do some forceful dentistry
Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.
Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.
All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
Obamacare is a marketplace in the same way the Knockout Game is a game.
Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.
People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.
You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.