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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.
I like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.
Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.
You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.
Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.
As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.
Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.
If the view is very beautiful, do not sit and watch; go to the view, be in the view!
Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners.
Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!
Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.
Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!
Every time I see a smiling person on earth, I feel the warmth of the Sun in the sky.
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!
If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!
If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.
If you let a stupid to shape your country, you will surely get an amorphous country!
If you think the memories of the past too much, you will miss creating the new ones!
It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.
Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!
Sun always finds a way to give its light; truth always finds a way to show its face!
The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!
The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!
The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!
Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!
When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!
I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.
How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.
I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.
All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.