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In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207
It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.
My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.
In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.
I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.
For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
Initially, kids are attracted to Superman as a hero because he can take care of problems and still appear as friendly as your dad.
Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.
The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back home.
I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.
I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.
In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.
There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.
You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug
Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.
...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and we flourish.
When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
No matter who you are, no matter how difficult things might appear to be, you are always being moved towards magnificence. Always.
Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.
I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.