Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Believe what you see and lay aside what you hear.
If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
However early you get up you cannot hasten the dawn.
If you are among the roses, your friends will look for you among the thorns.
Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.
Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is.
If you go out a lot at night, you will probably meet ghosts.
I leaned my head back. "I look worse than I did the night you met me." "I thought you looked fine." I rolled my head to the side, so I could see him. Hoping the shadows made it so he couldn't see me. "What are you talking about? I looked like a Cirqu...
It's your world, but I make my way in it. At fifteen, no, I couldn't stand up to you. The age of illusions, when we know nothing, we hope for everything; we're wandering in a mist ... And the half of the world that's never had any use for us, suddenl...
He'll be cross if he sees I have been crying. They don't like you to cry. He doesn't cry. I wish to God I could make him cry. I wish I could make him cry and tread the floor and feel his heart heavy and big and festering in him. I wish I could hurt h...
Lt. Escobar: You must really think I'm stupid, don't you Gittes. Jake Gittes: I don't think about it that much but, gimme a day or two and I'll get back to yuh. Now I'd like to go home. Lt. Escobar: I want the other pictures, Gittes. Jake Gittes: Wha...
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Insurance Man: It's gotta be in excellent working condition, all right? Insurance company won't give you no money for a car that doesn't run. Ca-can you hang with this? Chauncy: Yeah, I'll hook you up. Be here tomorrow night at about, uh, about ten-t...
You get to an age when you lose people close to you.
You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
If you think you can then you can.
When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.
You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.