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Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.
The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.
If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.
Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.
When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.
I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.
When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.
I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event.
Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.
My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.
I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.