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all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.
Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.
I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.
Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.
The hero of a mainstream stand-alone novel can get by with things the hero of a sweet traditional category romance wouldn't dream of doing.
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.
Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!
First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.
when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural
I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.
Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.
When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.
Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?" "Of course not." "But he's..." "He's sweet," Molly insisted. Dare snorted. "He's still listening.
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.
He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.
You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.
There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.
Once the notion of time travel starts to come naturally to the human mind, it is supremely easy to assimilate it into our mode of thinking.
One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men don't have to.
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.
My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.
at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.
I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.
History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.
No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.
Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.