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That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
If you cant laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.
Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.
I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.
I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.
The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes
An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!
[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.
There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.
Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.
People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.
Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.
I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.
With 'Pretty Deadly,' I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a three-act structure in it. I don't know - someone probably can.
Look, my mother's not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there's no substitute for a husband and partner.
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.
Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.
I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.
We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.