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...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.
You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.
The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.
If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.
We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?
He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice...In exchange, he trusted me with his.
Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.
When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.
The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.
Women have to be careful to not wear out their husbands on their honeymoons, or they get so weak that they can't go to work!
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.
I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)
A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
I remember when I was trying to do 'Metropolitan,' in breaks I would read a page of two of Jane Austen as a palate-cleanser.
Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.