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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves
Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.
She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.
I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .
The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.
The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier - and for me.
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars.
I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
This is crazy," I told Patch in an undertone. "I'm crazy." He was on the brink of smiling again. "About you.
Let me show you,” he said in my ear. “Like this. Feel that? Relax. Now pivot your hips—it’s all in the hips.
The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.
If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.
Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.