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When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.
I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.
One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange.
Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.
I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.
If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.
I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.
When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.
Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.
Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.
Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.
If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.
In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.
In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.
If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.