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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

It looks like the future's really bright.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.