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It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.
They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.
Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.
I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.
I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.
Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.
Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.
My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.
Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?
I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn
Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.
If there's anything I can do- I know there probably isn't, but..." Just be here
I don’t care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries.
Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?
I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.
The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.
When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.
And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others.
It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.
I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.
Question: What is the white stuff in bird poop? Answer: That is bird poop, too.
The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.