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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.
Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.
To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.
I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?
The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.
There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk
It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.
I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.