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I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.
As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.
If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart
If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.
That's what dating is for, after all - to learn if you're compatible with someone.
She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.
If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.
It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.
There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.
Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.
The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.
All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.
In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.
I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister.
The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.
Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.
It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.
My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.
Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.
One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues.
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.
What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.