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Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.
Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.
What's this about flashing underwear?" says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. "Whatever it is, I'm in.
Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.
I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.
Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.
My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.
Which will you take, the high road or the low road?" "Which one is longer?" "They're both short.
Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow.
What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people.
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.
Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar