Lord Henry smiled. "He gives you good advice, I suppose. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.

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