Literature Quotes - Page 49

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

I will not take "but" for an answer.