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Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.
It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."
The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.
Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?
Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.
On the Trans-Atlantic Single-handed Race Mr Owen Smithers has been disqualified for using both hands.
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.
There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.
I am longing to see Libya rejoin the world as the internationalist Mediterranean country that it was.
You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.
Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.
Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.
Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.
I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.