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There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.
How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.
Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.
If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.
God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.
If you don't believe in what you're selling, neither will your prospect.
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.
Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.