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“What's my favorite part that I've written? That’s like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly!”
“That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.”
“Salvation is not about proving the existence of God”
“it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end”
“Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a gulph of devouring flames.”
“What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title—whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and...”
“Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.”
“Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, dragging his loathsome length along my bosom: Sometimes the quick cold Lizard rouzed me leaving hi...”
“Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the...”
“It’s sad really, trying to appreciate all of the great events in our lives and all the amazingly good days. Sometimes it seems like we take them for granted, until something bad comes along to put ...”
“Do not envy the rich”
“She was wise enough to hold her tongue. As this is the only instance known of a Woman's ever having done so, it was judged worthy to be recorded here.”
“According to the prevailing notion, freedom manifests as “preference-satisfying behavior.” About the preferences themselves we are to maintain a principled silence, out of deference to the autonomy...”
“She’s fulfilled her obligation, assuaged her conscience by finding me in the hallway and giving me the chance to freak out, and I’ve played my role too, by remaining calm, pretending to be okay, an...”
“You want me to invite him to dinner.” “I want you to invite him to dinner,” she agreed. “You know,” he said, “most gay men don’t have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives.” “Tha...”
“I must have your soul ; must have it mine, and mine for ever.”
“Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.”
“Unless a man has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous.”
“I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in.”
“Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they are not.”
