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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong
What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.
I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble.
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion
If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
Hungry bellies have no ears. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.
When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.