It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.
People change and forget to tell each other.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
You can't recover from what you do not understand.
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?
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