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The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life
God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.
Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
People don't change just because you know more about them.
Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.
Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
Alright, manly man,” he says. “Go prove that you’re a man.
One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.
Learn that clothes are there to suit your life, not to run
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.
Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
The example could encourage others who only fear to start.
Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.
What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.
Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind?
Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.
If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!
I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.