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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.
Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.
Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.
An oblique angle,” Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. “Ha! I told you I would work that in!
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.
'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.
In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.
Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors.
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.
He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.
... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.
In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.