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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.
Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.
You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.
I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.
The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.
There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.
claire:dont do anything dumb or ill kill you myself shane:ouch girl whatever happend to unconditional love around here
His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.
You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead
Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt
Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .
For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day.
The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.
It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.
The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.
I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.
I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.