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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.
You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.
We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day.
Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.
I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.
There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.
My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten.
I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.
Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
Just... ate," M says, frowning at me a little. "Two days...ago." I grab my stomach again. "Feel empty. Feel... dead." He nods. "Marr...iage.
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
Yes, they are elves," Legolas said. "and they say that you breathe so loud they could shoot you in the dark." Sam hastily covered his mouth.
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of.
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.
To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.
And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.