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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.
The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.
Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.
Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.
As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.
We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.
He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.
How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.
A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me." "I would hope so.
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.
I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you... More
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.
Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.