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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.
If you're going to clutter up the world with more novels, you should do a little more than entertain people.
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.
I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.
Quote of the day: The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go... By: Nicholas Sparks
It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.
It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.
When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.
A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.
Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.
My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.
All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.
I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.
Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.
Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.
Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?