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Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.
The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.
Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.
You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.
I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.
Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.
I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone.
It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.
I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.
Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.
How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.
It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.
I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything—" "It's called a friendship.
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.
I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.
When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.
The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.
Caleb could be so testy for no known reason. At times, it was like dating a woman with irritable bowel syndrome. Or rabies.
I don’t even know what to say to you. (Acheron) Me, either. I guess we’ll just stand here and cry at each other, huh? (Kat)
Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)
She’s best friends with my wife. (Julian) Gracie? You’re married to Gracie? That was you? You’re Mr. Hot Bottom! (Sunshine)
The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.
It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?
Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink.
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
I’m glad I came. I didn’t think I would be. But it’s good to see you… one more time. Not as sad as I’d thought it would be.
History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.