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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.
People all over the world feed upon U.S. cinema and don't know about their own.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.
At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.
I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.
I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.
The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.
If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?
Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.
It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.
Here's some news you might find surprising: By and large, the French like Jews.
Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism
Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.