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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.
For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.
One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.
They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.
Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!
I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.
Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.
Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.
And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs." Mr. Landowsky
'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.
The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.
And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.
I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.
I don't know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it's very similar to other places.
One of the blessings of my childhood was being a fighter and a scrapper, but being a fighter and a scrapper is a curse, too.
I was a hostess, a waitress, a cafe manager, and a prep chef. For one job, I had to wear a hat shaped like a head of garlic.
A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.
I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.
So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.
I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.