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You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don’t deserve it.
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.
You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.
Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.
There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.
The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. The greater the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.
You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.
It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons... Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life.
For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.
... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.
A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks
Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.
Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.
We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.
To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.
You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and no-one will like it!'
You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.
Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.
I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody gets hurt. It's basic.
So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.