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What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.
Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.
I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.
I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.
No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.
Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time
She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.
There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.
I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.
The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.
The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.
Never forget that at the end of the day, as a creative person, your résumé is all you've got.
I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.
In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown
He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.
If someone asks me where I bought something I’m wearing, I will usually say I don’t remember.
Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!
There is no need for the street lights in the Street of Love; all is already bright in there!
Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!