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My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.
If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.
Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.
Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.
Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used sex as a child.
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table
We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.
There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.
The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.
Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.
Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.
I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.
I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.
How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.
History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The Seal, she lounges like a bride,Much too docile, there's no doubt;Madame Récamier, on side,(if such she has), and bottom out.
I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.
What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.
Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.
Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.
"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.
We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.
You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.
No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.
At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.
The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.