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Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Do you realise how much trouble you're in?" "Perhaps I'll have some Weetabix after all.
It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.
Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.
The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.
The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.
I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.
...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.
The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.
The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.
Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.
There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.
This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.
But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.
You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.