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A long time ago, my grandfather used to play blackjack with me, when I was very small, and I quite enjoyed that.
The day I found out, the day I got my mammogram and the doctor told me I had breast cancer, it was mid-November.
What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.
How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.
At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.
I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.
I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.
I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.
We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.