The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

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A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

It is the loving not the loved woman who feels loveable.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Groan and forget it.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.