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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.
All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.
In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.
If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.
I've always felt that desire. To get a woman to throw back her head in laughter is a hot thing.
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.
As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right.
It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.
Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.
Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.
The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.
There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned
Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.
Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.
As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
"I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain."
I love you Max,"Fang said..."God, Max I love you so much." I know. I thought. I've always known
Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.
We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.
Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.
Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.
As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.
And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.
The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.