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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them.
Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.
If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.
I'm sure there are people who can toggle quickly from all-in caregiving to structured socializing, but I can't think of any offhand.
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.