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Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.
I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.
Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.
There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.
You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.
And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.
We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.
I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.