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The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.
The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.
You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.
It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.
When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.
It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.
I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.
You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.
Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.
Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.
Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.
Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity.
It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.
One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.
Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
I don’t understand how real Christians let that little f--ker get away with that.
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.
It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world
People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.
I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself
Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.
If we don't know how to deal with sin then we don't know how to deal with people.
People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid.
If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
I’m currently unsupervised It frisks me out too but the possibilities are endless
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'
Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Agree with an idiot and you're only one step away from turning into one yourself.