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Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.
Why? Why would you do that?” "You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.
Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.
Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him
Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.
As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba.
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.
If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.
Look everywhere with your eyes; but with your soul never look at many things, but at one.
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.
Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.
Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.
And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.
A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.
Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
There are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."
There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.
If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?
A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?