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The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.
The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.
The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.
Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.
As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.
I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.