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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.
Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
Sharia ... is, of course, invalid because it's God's Law, and God doesn't exist.
Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.
You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.
What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.
When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.
The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.
It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt.
I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.
Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.
An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?
My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.
Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.
I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
EVE:so thats the bathroom where shane spends houres doing his hair shane:bite me
You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?
Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.' It was the perfect motto for Morganville.
I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.
Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.