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I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
And so that means..." "We have to rob the Henley," Simon said. Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again.
A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.
Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures.
Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom.
I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold.
It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.
The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.
the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!
I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.
The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.
If someone's a flake, I help them dig their own hole. I let the audience be the judge. And believe me, they are.
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.
There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.
I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.
Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video
Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
Love means never having to say you're sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you.
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
I didn’t break his jaw, but if he lays a hand on you, it will be the first of many things to break,” Patch said.
I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.
But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.
The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.