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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.
When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.
One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.
I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.
Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.
I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.
We invaded Afghanistan to find bin Laden. We found him in Pakistan, and we're still in Afghanistan. We need better GPS.
Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army.
When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.
I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.
None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.
We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.
What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name.
I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?
And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.
There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.
Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare.
You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone." "I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.
Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.
He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.