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At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.
No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.
Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it
People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know.
And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.
All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.
But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.
It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.
There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.
First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.
One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association
It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val
Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.
I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.
The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.