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There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.
More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.
Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.
It's the first and only rule. Magic comes when you're not looking for it.
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.
Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.
It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.
Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.
We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.
It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.
Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.
I worry that drugs have forced us to be more creative than we really are.
Hawaii was so integral to my journey. I was just there at the right time.
It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.
I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.
It's important to make teens realize the influence they have over others.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.
Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.
What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
I like North Florida because it's much wilder than the rest of the state.
There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?
And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.