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Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!
First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.
When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.
Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.
All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.
Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.
But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.
They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.
We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.
But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.
I don't care what you call it. I believe in the quote, unquote, Holy Holocaust.
You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
The human heart holds much more love than it can ever disburse in one lifetime.
All media is moving, at light speed, toward development through viral channels.
Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.
Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.
Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.
To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.
I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.
The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'