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A compliment makes someone feel good about themselves. A catcall is harassment.
Protesting against sexism doesn't mean saying that all men are actively sexist.
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.
Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.
Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.
I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.
Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.
Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?
The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.
Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!
If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.
People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.
I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.
My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.
He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.
All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.
Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.