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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.
The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?
Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.
Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.
Would you care to walk to the river?” -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber
Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.
Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.
As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.
I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.
Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.
It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.
Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.
I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.
Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... "
If you focus completely on the things you love, then you are on your way to a beautiful life.
Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.
Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.
Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.
Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.
And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.