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I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.
Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.
I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy
I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.
Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?
Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.
I have to tell you, when I hear the song 'Jiya ho Bihar ke Lala,' I want to throw the history books out of the window and dance!
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the meantime, enjoy life.
I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.
Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.