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People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.
let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
Vampires are people too. They've got their own problems, they just drink blood.
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.
We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.
Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead.
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.
It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.
I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.
Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.
Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.
I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
I saw 'Fifth Element' once when it first came out and never thought much of it.
On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.
It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.
... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.
Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.
Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything. -Lula
Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.
I was driving by, doing a security check... and I smelled leg of lamb." Morelli
You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!
I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.
When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.
The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.
If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.
Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.