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I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.
I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.
I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.
Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.
They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.
I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You.'
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.
Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.
There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.
But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.
The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.
There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?
Beautiful places are not for sleeping; they are for staying awake to watch the beauties!
Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!
Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!
If there is a strong will, there will always be a path even in the middle of precipices!
If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?
If you have the power to resurrect the dead man, firstly, be sure that he is a good man!