A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. Votes: 11
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. Votes: 10
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. Votes: 5
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all. Votes: 0
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. Votes: 0
I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more. Votes: 0
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh. Votes: 0
that voice was a deathless song. Votes: 0
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. Votes: 0
Forgotten is forgiven. Votes: 0
She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game Votes: 0
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. Votes: 0
It's a mining town in lotus land. Votes: 0
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired Votes: 0
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. Votes: 0
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. Votes: 0
Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them. Votes: 0
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. Votes: 0
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? Votes: 0
The victor belongs to the spoils. Votes: 0
January, the Monday of months.... Votes: 0
You can stroke people with words. Votes: 0
Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects. Votes: 0
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. Votes: 0
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. Votes: 0
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Votes: 0
He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms. Votes: 0
We all have souls of different ages Votes: 0
Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him. Votes: 0
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. Votes: 0
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. Votes: 0
Never confuse activity with action. Votes: 0
One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. Votes: 0
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. Votes: 0
I'm a cynical idealist. Votes: 0
Nothing any good isn't hard. Votes: 0
The rich are different from us. Votes: 0
Action is character. Votes: 0
Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" -- Votes: 0
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ. Votes: 0
No one should live beyond 30 Votes: 0
He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. Votes: 0
It takes two to make an accident. Votes: 0
You remind me of a smoked cigarette. Votes: 0
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever. Votes: 0
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. Votes: 0
I used to build dreams about you. Votes: 0
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional. Votes: 0
Life cracked like ice! Votes: 0
I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want you to know. I don't want any one to know. Votes: 0
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it. Votes: 0
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Votes: 0
I was too absorbed to be responsive Votes: 0
We all must try to be good. Votes: 0
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy Votes: 0
i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself Votes: 0
He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all. Votes: 0
He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him. Votes: 0
he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live. Votes: 0
mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born. Votes: 0
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. Votes: 0
smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road. Votes: 0
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. Votes: 0
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same. Votes: 0
Murder your darlings. Votes: 0
All things come to him who mates. Votes: 0
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. Votes: 0
Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. Votes: 0
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank. Votes: 0
Englishmen must have an island. Votes: 0
She was incurably dishonest. Votes: 0
...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. Votes: 0
but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die. Votes: 0
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. Votes: 0
Her voice is full of money. Votes: 0
I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart. Votes: 0
A squalid phantasmagoria of breath Votes: 0
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves. Votes: 0
When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. Votes: 0
A writer wastes nothing. Votes: 0
I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams Votes: 0
I'm not much like myself any more. Votes: 0
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming. Votes: 0
She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs. Votes: 0
Her voice sounded like money. Votes: 0
So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence. Votes: 0
Human sympathy has its limits. Votes: 0
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational. Votes: 0
I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel. Votes: 0
Kiss me now, love me now. Votes: 0
A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn. Votes: 0