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This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.
My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.
To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.
Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.
'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .
Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.
When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.
Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.
Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.
But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.
I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.
It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.
No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.
What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.
I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.
As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
I think millennials are the most woke generation because they understand that differences are just in the fabric of who we are.
Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.
I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.
To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.
Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.
The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.
To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.
As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.