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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.
Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.
You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.
Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.
If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.
The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.
riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know one, bro.
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.
I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.
Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.
When someone is working hard on something, that always connects with people, no matter what the differences in generations are.
It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.
If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.
Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.
The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.
That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
I slithered out of the sinkhole on my stomach. It was not the sexiest move I'd ever performed, but I was impressed nonetheless.
I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does not help my case
We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.
Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.
It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure.
You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.
People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.