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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.
You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.
Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.
I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'
Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.
Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.
In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.
I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.
You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?
Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.
I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.
Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.