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What if it can't be worked out? What if I'm—what if I'm broken for good?
Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.
I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.
The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form
Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.
After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.
Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.
I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.
Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.
Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.
For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.
He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.
Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.
I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.
Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.
Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.
It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.
I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.
Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.
I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.