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There was something in her eyes that drew me in. I wanted to make the sadness she tried to hide go away." -Cage York
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.
There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.
I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.
Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.
A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.
Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.
Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.
Don’t ask me when because I don’t remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide.
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it? I'll always find the hardest path.
It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.
A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.