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At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.
Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.
There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.
You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?
People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.
You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.
Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.
Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.
The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.
Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.
. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.