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But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn’t know her.
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.
Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.
Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.
At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.
No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.
Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it.
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.