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Their rejection of Hamas after it had won the election... confirms that there is a Crusader-Zionist war against Muslims.

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.

It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him.

These clownish words of deceit were taken more seriously than the truth.

Beautiful feelings make bad literature. In which case, this precious state of prose is proof that I'm no devil after all. Ah, blessed be the man who coined this phrase! It is a treasure of the language. An author can get away with using it but once in his career. Sad to say. The first time, it's endearing. If you insist on using it a second or a third time, though, dear reader, hiding behind it like a shield, you can expect nothing but misery.

I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them—a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

What a stupid little girl you are. I'm going to kiss you." "Go ahead." She pouted out her lower lip, not in the least abashed.

It was strange how she calmed my agitation with those few words.

I live solely on my writing now. On signing the registers at inns when I travel, I have no hesitation about listing "writer" as my occupation. If I suffer, I don't talk much about it much. I may suffer even more than before, but I wear a smile.

The recognition of any reality begins with trust. And the source of all trust is love for one's fellow man. - The Mermaid and the Samurai

loneliness or pain like for him? Last night I

Debates are for ignoble souls such as yourself who are anxious to achieve distinction.

These eyes has seen diverse misfortunes follow from diverse desires

The first time I met and embraced Judy Garland, it made pharmaceutical history.

Here in California writers who touch on the relations between capital and labor must be prepared to endure a considerable amount of abuse I Remember Christine .

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.