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"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.
Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types.
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come. (Moon Called)
Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.
I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.
By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.
I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.
If we want to see an end to personal and global conflict, then love is the only real answer.
It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn
but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.
I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.
Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.
May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.
What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.
Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.
Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!
What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.