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It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.
I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast.
I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.
The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.
I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.
What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!
Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.
He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.
I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)
Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi)
For the record, we’re not friends. (Stryker) For the record, I don’t care. (Savitar)
I’m going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)
Shut up, Nick. (Talon) 'Shut up, Nick, heel, sit, fetch.’ Love you too, Celt. (Nick)
The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.
I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
The attitude you have right now is the one you are choosing. Is it the one you want?
About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.