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We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.
The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.
...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.
What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.
If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted
I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.
Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.
I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.
If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.
Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!
To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.'
Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.
The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.