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Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.
... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.
There wasn't a second that passed when you weren't on my mind. You own me, Eva. Wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, I belong to you.
When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.
I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.
I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.
The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.
I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray the popular attend my wake.
Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense
The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.
Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.
God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.
Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own.
Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.
As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.
Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.
I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery
My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.