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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.
I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
What are we going to blow up?" Morgan sighed happily and slapped joss on the back. " Kid... you just said my seven favorite words.
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.
I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.
I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.
I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.
I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.
What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.
in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.
There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
That is who my people are - the oddballs, the rebels, and the geeks. That's what I am, so it's what I naturally feel connected to.
I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
I disconnected and made a mental note not to call Tank unless I was bleeding profusely, and he was the only other person on earth.
[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.
That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever.