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If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.
I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".
So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.
The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?
My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore.
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.
By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.
The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.
It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?
But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way.
Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.
A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.
We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away. Who shall resist the summons?
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.
...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews