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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.
Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.
(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.
At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!
Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?
I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. It’s dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it.
I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.
A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
Are you smiling when you talk? Try it today, and I guarantee you will notice a difference in your life.
The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.
high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.
A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.
God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.
The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
I declare an end to my day by removing my phone from my bedroom and putting it in a phone charging bed.
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.
Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.
The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.
in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.