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- It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't…
- All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
- Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my…
- If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
- I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.
- I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't…
- I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't…
- Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All…
- There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh,…
- Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect…
- Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
- I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on…
- They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable…
- It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your…
- They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.
- You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant…
- Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
- Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I…
- Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep…
- I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a…
- I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a…
- This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
- I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from…
- Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you…
- If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale