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There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.
Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.
You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.
Indigenous people all over the world take quite a lot of trouble with their hair and their clothes.
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.
A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.
We fell in love despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.
If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.
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It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.
Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.
After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.
A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home
Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.
And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.
It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.
Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.
You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.
I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
If there's a photo of a roomful of kids I'm the one with the biggest smile or my hand over my face.
The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.
We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.
The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.