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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.
What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.
Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.
This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.
You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.
The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.
If you were really a feminist, you'd support housewives. You'd see them as the heroes and women who work as just wasting their time!
Here's an important thing about all storytelling that young people, especially Millennials, don't understand - you need a third act.
I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.” “Really? Was that how you quit me?
'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is, to my mind, the greatest American animated series ever produced. The characters lived and breathed.
To be able to write 'Superman,' to be able to work with the legendary artist who is John Romita Jr., I signed on as soon as I could.
Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'
Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.
I think this is the other big issue that is not going away: Do we really believe that bit in the Constitution or not? I think we do.
If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.
Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.