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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

People who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.