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I dont know about happily ever after... but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought.
I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.
I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.
life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.
Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.
I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.
Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.
And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.
Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.
Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.
The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.
If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.
I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion.
What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.
The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.
It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.
To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.
Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.