We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.


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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as...
S. J. ROZAN
What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you op...
S. J. ROZAN
Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad...
S. J. ROZAN
I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
S. J. PERELMAN
I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started...
S. J. PERELMAN
Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
S. J. PERELMAN
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. PERELMAN
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are ...
S. J. PERELMAN
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S. I. HAYAKAWA
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. HAYAKAWA
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or...
S. I. HAYAKAWA
You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us...
S. I. HAYAKAWA
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA
So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
S. I. HAYAKAWA
When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat...
S. E. HINTON
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un...
S. E. HINTON
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon...
S. E. HINTON
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. HINTON
Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o...
S. E. HINTON
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. HINTON
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S. E. HINTON
How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r...
S. E. HINTON
More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON
My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. HINTON
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. HINTON
I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. HINTON
If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. HINTON
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON
If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer...
S. E. HINTON
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. HINTON
My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. HINTON
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i...
S. E. HINTON
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. HINTON
I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t...
S. E. HINTON
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi...
S. E. HINTON
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. HINTON
You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE
This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only...
PEARL S. BUCK
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. MERWIN
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. MERWIN
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the wh...
W. S. MERWIN
I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execu...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only ...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your w...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, a...
ULYSSES S. GRANT