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- My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
- Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know…
- Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.
- It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and…
- Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who…
- One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
- I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all…
- Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.
- Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.
- Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to…
- Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San…
- A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never…
- I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness…
- I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at…
- It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of…
- I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
- It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try…
- When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never…
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to…
- I should have known […] I am the rain. […] I am the land […] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out…
- If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and…
- Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me,…
- I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
- But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been
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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