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If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.
Not an easy story but an important one. Compelling, powerful and engaging.
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years.
You're going to find Tigerstar. Against that fiend, every cat is helpless.
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.
If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
Where even a sliver of love exists the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.
Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself.
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.
No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.
Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?
They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.
I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.
Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.
Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.
When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.