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Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.
Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.
Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.
Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!
Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem - it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which there will always be problems
Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.
And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.
And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.
If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.
During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.
If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.
Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.
Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.
I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.
With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?
When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.
Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.
A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.
I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.
I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.
I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.
The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.
I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.
Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.
When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.
Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.
Many companies routinely do things that are not important. They fail to prioritize. They get involved with details that don't matter.
Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life.
Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.
Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.