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Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.
People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.
Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.
Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
I'm alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.
I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.
My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.
Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.
Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.
An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.
In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.
Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.
Howie's doctor told him to lose ten pounds, and since Howie's been on a diet he's gained three.
I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.