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It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them
Don't you dare try to apologize." His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.
I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living.
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
I don’t want to love you,” I forced out through the thickness in my throat. “God, I hope you do, because you own me completely,” he whispered.
I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.
Maybe people are not able to define their fears. But they have them, and it shows from their behavior. There is so much frustration and anger.
When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.
I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.
He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be.
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.
I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.
And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.