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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.
Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.
... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.
I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.
In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.
Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.
TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.
But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.
I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan.
Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.
Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.
Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?
Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!
Stand-up is very broad strokes, kind of a skeleton of a story or something.
Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.
swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.
[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train.
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.