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Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.
We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.
In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.
She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.
You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.
It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.
Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.
One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
I'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do..." he swung a finger back and forth between us"...this.
We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.
You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?
you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.
A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.