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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.
When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
I have played games like Angry Birds and, you know, Plants vs. Zombies and things like that just for fun on the phone and everything.
You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast.
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.
the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.
It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.
There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.
It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face.
Oh -- who's the Queen?" "Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter.
I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.
The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.
Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.
So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want.. get behind the good feelings of all your wants.
As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.
Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.
Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.
If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.
It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.
Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.