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I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.
We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?
I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.
while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.
We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best.
It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.
I needed to get out and my roomies had both left me for the night so I followed the pretty one here.” Did Marcus just call me pretty?
It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.
I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.
Mostly I sit alone in a room and cry and do my job - so when they let me out of my cave to go on tour, I really listen to my readers.
Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.
I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.
This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.
I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.
To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.
There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!
You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.
It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.
Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.
It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
I am totally and completely addicted to movies. Jeff, my husband and I, watch movies every night and go out to the movies constantly.