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I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.
It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.
Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.
If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.
...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.
A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.
All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.
The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.
If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.
Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.
All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.
Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.
There's no way the new chimney will fall down, Lu. Not with you in charge. It wouldn't dare.
The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.
Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.
If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
Our purpose is simple... To Love To love each other, to love all life and to love our earth.