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The more people challenge us, the more power we gain. We become stronger not under the tiny raindrops but under the huge hailstone!
Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle, because existence is a miracle!
You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!
I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.
You are five times more likely to be killed by your abuser if your abuser can get their hands on a gun. That`s not a small problem.
In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.
my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE
I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.
There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.
I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said.
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.
I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.
Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.
I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.
Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.
John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.
Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses.
I get it, cops deal with a lot, but at the same time, we crave justice, and we do want to believe things are going to be all right.
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'