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There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.
In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.
At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.
Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.
People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.
Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.
The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
The night is dark, the waters deep, Yet soft the billows roll; Alas! at every breeze I weep — The storm is in my soul.
Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.
The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.
Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.