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Men often marry their mothers.
A closed mind is a dying mind.
I like any place that isn't here.
There's no sauce for play like work.
A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.
Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.
Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.
Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.
Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.
here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.
A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.
There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.
If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.
celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.