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The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.
It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.
But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.
Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.
China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.
How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
Deep in my heart I know my future soul mate is not waiting for me online.
The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"
Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.
Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite.
There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.
Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.
I am going down first. Of course you're going down first, you're the guy.
When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.
People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.
Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.
He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.
Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.
For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.
the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.
There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!
Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.
People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.
Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.
I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.