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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.
I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.
...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.
Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.
At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.
I love you, Ella May and nothing will ever change that. You can push me away -run away – and I will still love you.
I can handle scars, especially ones that are on the outside." I understand his meaning from the depths of my heart.
The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.
Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.
The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.
I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.
I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals
It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.
Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.