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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.
O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.
I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'
My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.
I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh.
Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.
There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.
I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.
Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush
If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.
There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can."
So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.
I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.
I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.
In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.
You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.
Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.
To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.
As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn’t mean that we are alone.
Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.
Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
Live and everyone would die. Die and everyone would live. It seemed like such a simple choice. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
A word of advice, if I may? Explosions are an excellent way to kill the undead. But you should probably take a few steps back first, kid.
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.