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Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.
Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.
Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.
They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.
[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.
There's always a problem when you write, something you're trying to resolve, and sometimes a view can be inspiring.
I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.
It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.
An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.
Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.
Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!
To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.
All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.
It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.
People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.