We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.
Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.
Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
Wild nights are my glory!
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals
You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
Only a fool is not afraid.
You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
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