If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
There is no thermometer for wants!
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
to everything there is an end - except fear.
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!
... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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