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Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.
That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund
As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir
A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.
I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.
Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!
After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.
The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?
...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!