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The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!
I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.
I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.
Shoot the moon," Aurora says dreamily. "Would it bleed, do you think? I think it would. I think it would bleed...shooting stars.
Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.
With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.
This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!
Maybe he likes the look of Mae," Nick drawled. "Don't be ridiculous." Nick raised his eyebrows. "Does he like the look of Jamie?
Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes." That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.
We love a lot of vampire fiction - both fiction in which the vampires are enemies to be battled or stone cold foxes to be dated.
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.
I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.
My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.
And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]
Youever insult Bride again, I swear I'll rip your throat out and feed you to the gators in the swamp. You understand me?" - Vane
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.
Humans aren’t a protected class. (Acheron) Really? (Jaden) Yeah. Savitar shares your ‘all humans are vermin’ mind set. (Savitar)
She couldn’t very well let him join her in bed like that. Sure you could. No I can’t. Please? Hush, self, let me think.’ (Grace)
Now don’t you be covering for him, Ash. (She wagged her finger at Nick.) Are you driving? (Cherise) No, Mom. I’m sitting. (Nick)
I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.
I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.
I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.