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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.
He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells.
Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.
I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
Indonesian people have to regain power, regain control over their own country. And that will never come without a struggle.
I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.
Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.
Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie
Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth.
You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.