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You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.
Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.
It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.
I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.
People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.
Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.
I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm." ----Roarke, Naked In Death
Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.
Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.
To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.
I've loved you for as long as I can remember, and I'm going to love you for the rest of my life.
We got boobies!" the kid me said, gawking at my chest. "I'm really glad we got boobies. Finally.
I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.
Call time out when you need help and ask the Coach for help. Don't wait. Do it when you need it.
In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.
Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.
The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.
Sharing laughter is a way of casting delight to the wind so it blows everywhere and to everyone.
I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.
What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.
I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.
For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.