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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.
Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
So, you reap souls and crush hopes? Is that part of the job, or just a service you offer for free?
It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?
You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.
But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.
It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.
If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.
I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.
It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.
The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.
Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.
I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony
If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.
You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.
The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.
I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.
Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.
Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.
You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor
You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
My backside and my privates. I’m stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.
My opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!
There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.
The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny.
How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.
The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side
Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.
I took the 'Seinfeld' tour of New York once - and if I think about it too hard, my brain explodes.
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.