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Not one woman had any reason to vote for Hillary besides that she is a woman. They all wanted to vote for her... but didn't know why.
I'm just a Trump supporter who is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and refuses to kowtow to the PC Left and their silly fads.
My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.
Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.
Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - the question is, what happens next?
When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
For me, when I'm coming up to a place where I have to make somebody up, it's almost like driving and taking your hands off the wheel.
Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.
The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.
Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.
Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
A gush of bird song, a patter of dew A cloud and a rainbow's warning; Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning!
Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.
Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.
So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.
Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
If you’re afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you’re not really fit to advocate for them.
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.
If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead!