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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.
I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation
But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.
If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.
I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.
The 'Crossfire' demographic is all-encompassing. Age, gender, religion, culture... it doesn't matter.
I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.
I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.
I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling.
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.
Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.
Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.
Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you.
Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.
You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!
Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.