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In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.
You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink
That man said he’d take your head too.” “Well, as to that,” Yoren said, “if he can get it off my shoulders, he’s welcome to it.
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.
I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.
A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.
There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.
I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor.
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss
For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.
Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow.
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.