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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt
What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.
We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.
If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.
We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
I hate that you do this to me. I hate how crazy you make me. I hate you! - Wendy
No! If you die, I die! You asked me to spend forever with you, and I'm going to!
I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.
Much of what we regard as truth in the war on terror is actually rather suspect.
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.
I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
Love is not about the Dimples on the Cheeks but it is about the Heart that Beats
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.
Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.
How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.