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We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need.
Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.
His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.
No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.
I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.
You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.
Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? “Bank’s closed, pal.
She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.
To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
Where do you live?" Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving" "That's not really an answer." "It's not really a place.
She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.
Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer dress.
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.
That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.