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The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.
When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.
Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy.
It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.
Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day
Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.
It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.
Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.
We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.
What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community
That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.
One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.
No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you?
My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
Before I forget, here's your homework. Where do you want me to put it?" She pointed at the trash can. "Right there would be fine.
You laugh, but you haven't seen me in a tux. Or maybe you don't like broad-shouldered guys with muscular chest and washboard abs?
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.