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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.
As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.
You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.
Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.
You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.
I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.
Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.
When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.
I'd waste a holiday trying to set a story in this new place I'd visit, whereas I would never write a story about Indianapolis.
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.
I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.