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The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter
Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen.
I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.
As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!
Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.
I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.
The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.
As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.
The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.
When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.
Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.
Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes
Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.
…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.
Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.
Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.
No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.
Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple
It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.
My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.