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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.
The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!
Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?
Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing.
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.
Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.
As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?
Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.
Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.
I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.
Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?
There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.