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Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.
Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.
The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.
I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any kind of prize.
It is weird, the relationship between people and food. It's always deeper than you think. It always stands for something else.
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.
A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.
When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
I think my favorite two words are 'true blue.' I think those words are really important, and the spirit of them has been lost.
Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.
I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.
There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.
Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.
The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.
- But we can't help falling in love. - We can't help defecating either. But we can choose where and when we are going to do it.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.