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The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.
Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.
This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).
In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.
When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.
Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.
Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.
I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.
Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.
Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.
I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.
I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.
I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.