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Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.
Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.
One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.
I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.
It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.
I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple - without a divinity!
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.
I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.
He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.
The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.
It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined.
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.
People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.
Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.
She doesn’t usually back down that easily.” “Maybe she’s got class.” Eve snorted. “Trust me,” she said. “That girl’s got no class at all.
Nice " Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey." "No you're not." "Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am.
Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go these places, and she'd take me along.