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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.
As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.
I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.
sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.
No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.
You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.
There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.
Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.
Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.
I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'