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And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
Lie down and offer your throat. No, wait, that's how dogs submit. I know! Offer her you're wallet!" Oberon
My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.
Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.
Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
You have no idea how to dance, do you?” Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. “I’m a mechanic.
If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.
Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.
I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE
Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.