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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.
That kiss was really nice you know before you...bit me, but it was still nice.
If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.
I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.
When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.
When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.
I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.
Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit
God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.
That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more
True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.
Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.
If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.
there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.
If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.
I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
She leaned toward me, offering her neck, and I kissed her just behind her ear.
His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most
Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night!
I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else.
It wasn’t a touch that said I need more. It was a touch that said I want this.
God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.
To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.