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I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me
Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.
Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
My children have brought so much happiness and joy. To me, they're the very definition of love.
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.
We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.
I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord.
Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
We must face ddestiny, not run from it.our destiny is our path that we must follow. -Cinderpelt
All cats old enough to catch thier own prey,gather here under the High Rock for a clan meeting!
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.
Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.
I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.
She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.
He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy