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There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.
If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.
The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.
Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.
The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.
Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.
Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.
Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?
All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.
My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.
I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!
Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.
I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.
That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.
What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.
Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?
I'm happy to work until I'm 70 if I'm able to. Actually, I'm happy to keep writing as long as people keep buying my books.
We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.
An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!
They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.