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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.
Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.
Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.
Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.
For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything
Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.
Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.
If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog.
The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.
Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.
I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.
The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
Drawing Lavi’s smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.
A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.
In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.
I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.
It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person
It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.
It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.