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A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
So.... You are well equipped for our service.' 'Which is?' 'We kill people.
“There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl,” ... “Except yours.”
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!
When you are praising or blessing you are on the highest frequency of love.
The Universe offers all things to all people through the law of attraction.
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.
No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.
No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.
The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years.
An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.
Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.
I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it.
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.