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To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.
We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes.
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.
I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.
The Putin regime's income comes from oil and gas exports. If we could crash the price of these commodities, we could bankrupt the regime.
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even if we don't feel like doing it?
The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my grandmother and I talked so much.
The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more
Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.
Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.
The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.
Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.
And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.
I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.
Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open.
High street homeopaths, who typically do not have any serious medical training, are allowed to treat you and me for almost any condition.
Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks. "Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.
A connection to Spirit restores your confidence, relieves your anxiety, and frees you from the desire to control everything in your life.
There's the difference between hardcore motorcycle riders and people who own motorcycles. Some people ride'em and some people trailer'em.
I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.
I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not telling you the name because I was terrible.
Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.
I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and either it's working or it isn't working.