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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.
In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.
Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.
Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.
There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.
I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.