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Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.
Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.
I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.
It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.
It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian)
... he broke her heart and made her crave his touch even while she was trying to figure out where to hide his body.
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.
The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.
When a nice girl overcompensates, her behavior says, “What I have to offer isn’t enough, and who I am isn’t enough.
When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.
For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.
...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.
Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.
I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.
I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.
The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.
Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.