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Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.
It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.
Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.
If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.
We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.
If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.
I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.
During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
It is not enough that we are under call or even that we are going in the right direction. The timing must be right.
The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of His daughters.
Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.
If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?
If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.
Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.
Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.
Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.
I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.
I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!
You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.
He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.
Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.
If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes.
Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read it.