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But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.
People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?
Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.
This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.
I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.
I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.
No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.
There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.
I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.
The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.
I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.
Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.
I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.