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But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean
The reason you have to say "Trust me" is that you haven't earned it and are forced to ask for it - BAD MOVE.
Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.
You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing.
I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you.
I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.
Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?
If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.
Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.
When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.
Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.
Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.
What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become.
The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.
I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.
The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too.
Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.
I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.
Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.
Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.
It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.
If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.
He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!
Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.
It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.