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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Aaliyah

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

Jerome Robbins

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

Charlotte Rampling

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

Marilyn Hacker

When women are stressed, they either eat too much and get fat, or they eat not so much and get thin, and the latter is what happens to me.

Shirley Eaton

In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.

Jose Padilha

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Townsend Harris

Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an...

East of Eden

The idea that someone could, or would want to, experience uninterrupted happiness over a period of days, let alone years, is ludicrous. Anyone who feels pleasant and bubbly all the time is either mentally disabled or hooked on crack. Money, on the ot...

The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She ...

Handle with Care

A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take th...

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a state of hope which belongs to bright prospects and the morning; b...

Heretics

There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t talk because he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn’t even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he ha...

Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings

Right now, all white people are either wearing or coveting a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses. These sunglasses are so popular now that you cannot swing a canvas bag at a farmer's market without hitting a pair. In fact, at outdoor gatherings you s...

Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews

If only either of us knew the challenges a simple word like forever could bring.

The Consequences of Forever

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

Calculating God

Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married [...]. The iron is less dangerous.

Divide & Conquer

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

Eat, Pray, Love

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Flaubert's Parrot

...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...

A Familiar Rain