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You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.
Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive.
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.
...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.
Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.
That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers.
He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
Buying an apartment in New York was beyond my wildest dreams. I had to scrape together every cent to buy it. And I'm so happy I did.
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.
There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.
It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?
The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.
Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
Many things between Heaven and Earth fill me with wonder; but of all of these, the least wondrous to me are the wonders of Religion.
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.
Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
Even while you are in doubt, there will be an answer you will arrive to. Even while you are in pain, your happiness will be waiting.
Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?
The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.
I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.