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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious. Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. Nobody ever does.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral." "Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do

Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.

One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober.

Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.

Do you want to see his picture?" She pulled out her phone and began busily swiping, and at the next stoplight, held it over for Briddey to see. "His name's Xander.

Which room is breakfast in?" I asked Baine. "The breakfast room, sir," he said.

No," said Harris, "if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip." Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome

He sounded time-lagged, but probably wasn't. All of Lady Schrapnell's new recruits sound time-lagged.

These are small things; I am coming to things of greater importance, but which seem smaller, because they are more common.' — Bernanrd of of Clairvaux

six emotions make up the first group: love, desire and joy in response to whatever my senses recognize

His subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams.

Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.