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If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.
I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.
Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them.
Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.
I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy.
Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.
The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.
Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.
I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
I'll continue doing 'Jingle Belle' as long as I've got a good story for her.
It's a lot of fun to identify with a character who lives by their own rules.
Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.
I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.
Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.
Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I.
Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.
I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.
for every marriage that is made in Heaven, there is a marriage made in Hell.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.
To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.
There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.
To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.