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Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
I start every day making sure I'm where I need to be and thinking like I need to think.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.
'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.
Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.
A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.
I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
There is a difference in what people are willing to consider, daytime versus nighttime.
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?
As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.
Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested.
To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.
Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.
I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.
The really great people are the ones who know how to make the little people feel great.
Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.
My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.
Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.