Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Don’t wanna sleep, don’t wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin’ through the pastures of the sky.
There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.
You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn’t a phony because she’s a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can’t talk her out of it.
I don’t mean I’d mind being rich and famous. That’s very much on my schedule, and someday I’ll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I’d like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany’s.
The blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is.
But I know what I like.′ She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. ‘It’s like Tiffany’s,‘she said. ‘Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it’s tacky to wear diamonds before you’re forty; and even that’s risky.
Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won’t. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.
If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.
She’s such a goddamn liar maybe she don’t know herself anymore.
He wants awfully to be inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is – if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
Now listen to me, Buddy: there is only one unpardonable sin – deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. That, never.