You cannot love without intuition.
He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.
Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.
My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.
And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?
Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
Love taught me that your honour did but jest.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.
So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
I’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him. I want to be drinking with him in a bar. I’m tired and I don’t want anymore pain. I want Maurice. I want ordinary corrupt human love. Dear God, you know I want to want Your pain, but I don’t want it now. Take it away for a while and give it me another time.
I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
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