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When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans
The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?
The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.
The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.
A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.
I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.
I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.
We are consciousness whether we are in this reality or whether we are not in this reality; we are eternal consciousness.
Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.
I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.
Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.
The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place
Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.
My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.
Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.
Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.
If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.
And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.
That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!
Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart's an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders, You've got garlic in your soul.
Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.
By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
“Nothing's impossible,” Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls.
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.