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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.
I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.
No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.
Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.
Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts Are ills because we hoard them.
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.