Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Fashions in sin change.
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Fear comes with middle age.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
Everybody's got a habit.
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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