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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.
In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
I don't want to leave the house, and I don't want to settle down.
Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.
People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.
Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.
Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers Chucky.
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?
It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.
They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.
I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
Whoever invented men had definitely not ironed out all the kinks.
I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.
To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.
In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.
Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.
The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.
Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.
Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.
I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.
They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.