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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.
A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet
The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.
You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.
A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be.
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
I'm just going to jump and say:hey Mom, Dad, I'm gay, What's for dessert?
You forget, darling, I am the local psychopath." ~Clayton Danvers, Bitten
The three "F"s of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and...Reproduction
Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.
Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
I come from a military family, where service is seen as a badge of honor.
Wangari Maathai was a mighty woman, creative, fearless, and full of love.
She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.
Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.
Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.
Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.
Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.
Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.
I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.
Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky
We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.
Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.