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I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.
Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.
It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.
Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.
When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.
"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.
I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.
Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.
No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting
Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.
I always think of the Joker as the ultimate bully. Nothing he says is funny except to him.
I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.
Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.
Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.
Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.
We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.