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Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.
She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.
If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.
If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.
What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.
I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.
I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.
The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?
In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.
It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.
The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.
You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.
The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society - nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.
I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.
It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.
Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.
As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.
No one who has been martyred by the Jews should remain unknown. And no one who has been martyred by the Jews will remain unavenged.
We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.