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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.
I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.
An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.
Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.
As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.
Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.
Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.
You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.
Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.
It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.
If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.
Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.
I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.
The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.
A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.