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Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.
The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.
Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?
Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.
I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.
If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.
I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.
Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
My most popular blogs end up being the ones where I talk about being a dad.
It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.
For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.
Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.
You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.
For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.
The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.