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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.
There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
I expected more from literature than from real, naked life.
The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.