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Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.
My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!
You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Without good company all dainties Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted.
Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.
When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.
The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.
Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.
Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter of talent.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.
Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.
Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.