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How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.
How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.
I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.
She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen
That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.
They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.
Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.
Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days. Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!!
Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.
Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.
I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.
Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No — if she bit him, he'd die.
If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr.
I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).
The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.
So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.
A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.
My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes.
I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?
However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid.
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.
Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service.
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.