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I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.
I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American.
I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.
I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.
Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.
... real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like -- to those whom we have injured or who despitefully use us.
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.
That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.
Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.
friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.
Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.
When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.
Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares!
Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow!
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!
Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.
If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!
There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.
In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.
I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.
If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.