The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
For time is the longest distance between two places.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Luck is believing you're lucky.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
All good art is an indiscretion.
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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