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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.