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Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.
I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.
criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.
Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.
Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.
What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.
The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.
Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.
I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!
In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
Throughout history, the Poles have defended Europe. They would fight, and - between battles - they would eat and drink.
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.
I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.
Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.
She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.
I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.
I was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read, for me, at times.
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.