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Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.
The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.
Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.
I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.
The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.
I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.
The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.
What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.
To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.
If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.
If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That I'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?
I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe.
If not for my mom, I wouldn't be a writer today. When I was a little girl, I rarely saw her without a book in her hand.
Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.