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I was very sophisticated when I was 17. When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was . . . I've been getting younger...
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The Soul unto itselfIs an imperial friend --Or the most agonizing Spy --An Enemy --could send...
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...
Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.Source: In Webster's...
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...
Life is too short for a long story.Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...
I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be...
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if...
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.Source: Sudden...
The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head. More about this quote
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.Source: In...
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Source: I Know Why...
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and...
What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something...
Where's the man could ease a heart,Like a satin gown?Source: The Satin Dress,...
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if...
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.Source: Speech to...
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.Source:...
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the...
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.Source: Letter, 1874; in...
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