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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.
By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!
When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.
I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.
.."I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her.." ~E.L.~
When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.
To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.
Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.
If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!
I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.
There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.
Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.
How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.
We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.