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when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.
In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
Since love is a magic, Valentine's Day is the day of magicians! Whoever loves creates a magic; whoever is loved, a magic is created!
What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!
A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!
If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!
If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!
No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself!
No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!
Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.
Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.
The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!
The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!
The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe better than the Earth can see it!
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!
Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!
You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds!
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!
I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.
you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.
You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.
Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.
A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.
Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.
If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.
Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.
Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.