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Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power
It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!
When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.
You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.
The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.
You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.
To think of Tolstoy eating a sandwich is intrinsically kind of funny.
We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.
A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.
To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.
You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.
Everything in this world is designed to oppose your forward movement!
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.
Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.
You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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