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We also mark what's ours. And as I'm not going to see you for twelve hours, I think I'll leave a little more all over you.
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life
Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.
I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.
In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.
With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.
I have a pretty open mind about supernatural stuff - I do believe that there's more to this world than what meets the eye.
I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.
I love you, Ella May," I whisper, kissing her cheek. "And one day I want to be doing this exact same thing at our wedding.
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.
A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.
But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.
I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.
It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.
When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.
I left it with a warmer,” he said drily. Because war mages ate their fried chicken frozen to the ground and they liked it.
A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.
They'll have to bring in Mulder an' Scully, because there ain't no CSI on the planet that'll ever be able to explain this.
Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government.
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.