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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.
To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
I firmly believe that we're all good people, but sometimes it's hard to understand how to do good.
My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
There was a time I was willing to be a clown for people who I felt were the perfect person for me.
The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.
I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.
Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.
One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.
Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want - and the feeling of having it already.
LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW.
You're master of what you've lived, artisan at what you're living, amateur at what's next to live.
Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.
The greatest act of courage is not falling in love But, despite everything, falling in love again.
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.
One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.
I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.