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I was an atheist most of my life, and now I am a God-fearing Catholic because of the miracle of life. And I'm pro-life.
I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.
I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.
Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.
Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.
Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.
O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.
Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.
One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.