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My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.
Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.
I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.
The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.
In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).
You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.
Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.
The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.
Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.
Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.
I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.