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I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge.
If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.
A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.
A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB
I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.
A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.
Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.
If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael
Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.
I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.
Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.
I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.
God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?
Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.
Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.
The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.
When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.