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I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)
For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
Nope. That´s my line. This is my boyfriend´s house, which makes that my line,exclusively.Where is he?" Nora (p. 287)
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.
Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh
I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.
Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.
"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.
If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.
Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.
Love like there's no tomorrow; live like there's no yesterday. We're forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.
Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.
Where does she get all the energy? Where does he get all the energy? Nobody GET's energy. Everybody releases energy.
Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.
Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.
To understand the mindset of the connected consumer, one must realize that everything begins with search and intent.
I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.
My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.
It’s amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.
The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.
Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny.
Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.
With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.
A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.
I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.