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I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal
This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.
The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.
Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.
How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way
I'm not a role model. I'm an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.
She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.
People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.
shane:do we have a choice michael:dont think so shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go get eaten.at least then i can get some sleep
I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.
I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.
I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.
Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.
We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.
We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.
You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.
remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.
I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.