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Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.
You would make a great teacher. (Grace) Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you’re at it? (Julian)
No. He’s the personification of human fear. (Leta) Oh, goody. Just what I wanted to add to my dream. Should we invite him over for tea? (Aiden)
I can’t touch him. (Jared) Well, don’t you suck. (Stryker) Oh, believe me, I couldn’t agree more. Just be grateful it’s not contagious. (Jared)
Um, guys, I hate to interrupt whatever weirdness you two are partaking in, but we have a situation in here you might want to check on. (Phobos)
How much longer will I live? (Urian) You’re immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn’t make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn’t. (Acheron)
The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias ; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.
I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.
I don't like overacting or putting in way too much in a role when it is not required. It takes away the natural performance which you can give.
We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.
Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.
I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.
I knew you'd kiss me." "How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.
There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.
Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You prefer to be anonymous.
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.
What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.
I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work you need to.
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.
I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!
Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.
There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.
People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.