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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.
You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old
Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.
Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.
Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.
My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it.
When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.
My go-to winter recipe is beef and butternut squash stew, cooked in the slow oven all day.
An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.
You don't need to say any special incantation or sacrifice a stray cat or something first?
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.
People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.
If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.
My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.
If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.