I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.
The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.