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Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

Press on, regardless.

Someone's got to look after the devil himself, as long as he wears clothes and needs food and drink.

Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.

Damn it, the tiger played velvet paws with me, didn't he?

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Funny, one somehow imagines her snuffing quietly out now, the way the moon would if the sun vanished.

This is the way of love, I find; one longs so fervently for the beloved to achieve the best ends that he is spared nothing.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

William's mother, dead these six years. He spoke of her with love, but without grief. Six years, and whatever the loss, happiness steals back.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

Something was moving; there was a kind of breathing brightness in the air, the wind of God brushing by, invisible in sunlight.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

One always got the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

All that we have is to live what life brings. Die what death comes.

We have lived under the edge of doom, and feel ourselves now facing the long-threatened fate. But hear this Emrys: fate is made by men, not gods.

Kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more ...

Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.

I had been so used to God's voice in the fire and stars that I had forgotten to listen for it in the counsels of men.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

Used every man according to his capacity.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly clergyman, and he cancelled her out.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

The sour smell was not the smell of fungus. It was unlit incense, and cold ashes, and unsaid prayers. I

It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free.

Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on almost complete misunderstanding.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

I'd settle for what you had to give

Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes.

Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be
doing all the time.

People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be!

Like the first breath of living wind to the sailor becalmed and starving, I felt hope stir.

the god does not speak to those who have no time to listen.

Nothing ever happens to me.

The boredom and annoyance that shut down over it were humiliatingly plain to see. I could have slapped her for it.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted.