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But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again
'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years.
I’m going out, remember?” I prodded. “And I’m going to drink too much, which makes me horny. Don’t forget to take your vitamins, ace.
'Scandal' is great because it's intriguing and sexy, and it has a lot of play with secondary characters in situations, lots of drama.
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.
Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.
America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.
Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?
I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.
What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.
We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
Mainly, the reason people who didn't succeed had trouble because they had trouble forming teams. They didn't know how to collaborate.
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
The Christian life is a pilgrimage from earth to heaven, and our task is to take as many as possible with us as we make this journey.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.