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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.
You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.
A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.
I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.
You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.
Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.
Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.
A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.
An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence
Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.
It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.
Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.
It's much more important to write than to be written about.
We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.