Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 7742.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
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I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
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I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
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I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
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I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
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I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
Faceboek (2011) -
I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31) -
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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