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Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Love and a sense of calmness are the only things you need to bring to the experience of death.
Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.
I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.
Humility comes from understanding that the obstacles in front of you are not going to go away.
I don't have your way with words "Sin said. "So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha
If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?
Love always costs more than you can afford to pay," he said. "And it's always worth the price.
Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.
One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.
Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'
The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.
The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?
there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly
Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.
The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.
Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)
What would you like? (Maggie) I don’t care. I’ll eat anything not Tylenol or chocolate. (Wren)
So what happened? (Maggie) Nothing major. It’s just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren)
You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)
Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)
You go to him for advice? He’s only what? Five years old? I swear I own older sweaters. (Tory)
You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)
So, what’s your style preference? (Grace) For what I have in mind, nudity works best. (Julian)
All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through.
Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.
I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.
My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.
Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.
I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing
I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart I've left it with you
He squeezes my hand, and my heart punches against my ribs. It's just like pain, this pleasure.
I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.