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It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.
If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.
See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!" "Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!
I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic device.
I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.
I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living cook books and detective stories.
I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.
The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don't want than what they do want.
Remember it only takes giving love and good feelings a minimum of 51 percent of the tiem to reach the tipping point and change everything.
One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.
You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpturing is you (Dr. Joe Vitale)
We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.
I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.
If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.
The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.
Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.
I think Lena Dunham is a very bright and very interesting writer, and what she's accomplished at such a young age absolutely impresses me.
There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.
We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.
I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.
You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it.
My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!
Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.