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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Oh, I've had terrible, terrible relationships! The fact that I ever got happily married to a great, normal man is kind of a miracle.
Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core
Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.
Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.
But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?
I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
I don't think secrets are a bad thing. I think there's this idea that everything needs to be transparent in order for it to be free.
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.
I didn't know I was a zombie pedant until I started considering what from the zombie canon to keep in 'Zone One' and what to ignore.
He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.
I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.
and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.
Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?
The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.
I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.
Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.