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I wish the Israelis would embrace Christianity and Trump more. Love your wall. Love Trump's wall. It's very clear where I stand.
My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.
Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.
As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.
I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.
The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.
The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.
It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.
...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.
The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.
Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.
I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.
The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.
It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.
One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.
The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.
She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.